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Herpes (Greek for a creeping, inflammatory illness) has become notorious in the U.S. because of the type called herpes simplex, which is passed among humans by sexual contact. The name, however, covers some 50 viral infections that afflict animals. The equine variety is transmitted not by mating but by coughing or sniffling and can be "carried" by a seemingly well animal, just as the virus can reside in some humans with no visible ill effects...
Interest in possible viral causes of cancer peaked in the 1960s, when various animal studies suggested that viruses could cause turnors. But apart from rare correlations (such as that between the Herpes simplex II virus and cervical cancer in women), researchers could not establish a general cause and effect relationship between viruses and cancer. Recent advances in the field of genetic engineering have paralleled a surge of interest in the possibility of a genetic cause of cancer. But apart from circumstancial evidence for genetic causes of such rare cancers as Burkitt's lymphoma (as Harvard recently announced), the possibility...
Frustrated by the inability of the council to act on the zoning. MIT--the largest land-owner in Cambridgeport--moved last year to begin to take steps toward developing the former site of the Simplex Cable and Wire factory 27 acres in the north of the industrial district Last week, the university designated forest City, a Cleveland, Ohio-bsed firm, as the developer for the project...
...Simplex Steering Committee members repeated their concerns about unrestricted development after the Monday session, and called the councillor's move to substitute a compromise plan for their own petition "a slap in the face...
...Simplex Steering Committee members repeated their concerns about unrestricted development after the Monday session, and called the councillor's move to substitute a compromise plan for their own petition "a slap in the face...