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Researchers trying to find what causes a normal cell to become cancerous reported a significant step last week. A high-powered team of six investigators from the National Institutes of Health and Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute announced that they had taken a virus that causes cancer in laboratory animals and had extracted the nucleic acid from the submicroscopic particles (only 1/100,000 mm. in diameter). This nucleic acid, when injected into test-tube growths of normal mouse cells, made them behave abnormally, as in cancer. The resulting cells, injected into hamsters, caused cancer every time. More strikingly...
Grants and commitments for the projest thus far have come from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Sloan Foundation, the United States Steel Corporation, the Kennecott Copper Corporation, and the Hudson Gas and Oil Company...
...made to shrink by the male sex hormone testosterone. But this has unwanted side effects, causing many patients to grow beards and develop deep voices. Some women, Dr. Segaloff noted, put feminine charm before health and life and refuse testosterone treatment. But recent research, notably at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, has shown that when the body breaks down natural hormones, many of them have chemical descendants which are surprisingly potent, and sometimes in different ways from their parent substances...
HANOVER, N.H., Nov. 18--Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey today called the NDEA student loan program's loyalty oath provisions "unwise and ineffective...
...Summer Place (Warner), based on the 1958 bestseller by Sloan Wilson, tells a story about two families who spend a summer together on an island off the coast of Maine. The first family is Back Bay Boston, gone to shirtsleeves; the second family is Upstate New York, rolling in revenue. The second family pays room and board to the first family, which is too poor to refuse the money but too proud to enjoy taking...