Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lamb? His skin is surely lent...
Fatback, or "white meat," is the layer of fat between the pig's skin and its viscera. It is usually three or four inches thick, and it makes up the majority of a pig's bulk. It has, of course, a high caloric value, and is great for keeping human bodies alive at low cost. But steady meals of fatback, grits, and vegetables swimming in melted fatback are guaranteed to produce lethargy, ill health, and braindamaged children...
...weeks or months. They develop severe allergic reactions to it. Besides, said Medawar, "ALG is conceptually an archaic substance. Injecting horse-serum derivatives into human beings violates our sense of the fitness of things." It was Medawar's work in the early 1950s, which explained why some skin grafts in mice are rejected and others not, that laid the foundation for all today's transplant surgery. And now the transplant researchers are returning to work with the lowly mouse and guinea pig, to find a more satisfactory answer to the problem of rejection...
...Research, pointed out that the thalidomide molecule contains both a form of glutamic acid and a form of phthalic acid. Glutamic acid is a common substance, whose derivatives are used as flavor additives for meat and beer. Phthalic acid is an un common drug component moderately irritating to the skin. But, said Wuest, in thalidomide the structural combination of glutamic and phthalic acids is most unusual. Experiments undertaken in three laboratories have shown that this combination causes deformities, such as seal limbs, in fetuses...
Nuclear Alchemy. A New Jersey engineering professor and his wife, after similar experiences, have had damaged skin removed and replaced with grafts. How had the rings become contaminated? Since radon has a half life of only 3.8 days (meaning that it loses half its radioactivity in that interval), the seeds should soon have become harmless. Trouble is, the radon turns, by nuclear alchemy, into lead-210, the radioactive isotope of that normally dull metal. The lead-210 adheres to the gold. Even so, the intact seeds are safe because the lead's rays, unlike the radon's, remain...