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...Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have had 160,000 mice and I never had one that sang. If there is a singing mouse, I am open to conviction...
Last week, inspired by current campaigns to collect money for cancer-prevention studies, Dr. Little blazed up: "It has always seemed to me a great pity that some neutral and properly qualified laboratory should not make a very simple test of the correctness of Miss Slye's hypothesis concerning the recessive Mendelian inheritance of all types of cancer. If the matter could not be tested easily there would be some excuse for continuing the publication of contradictory evidence...
Briefly, Dr. Little asked Dr. Slye to give, loan or sell to some neutral institution a herd of male mice which she would certify as having no tendency to cancer in their makeup. Then he would give 1,000 of his cancer-susceptible female mice for breeding at a neutral institution. Children of those matings would be bred, brother to sister...
...cancer appears in any of the hybrid females " said Dr. Little, "Miss Slye's theory is incorrect, and the type of inheritance is not simply Mendelian, nor is cancer recessive. The test should take from two to three years, but is so direct and simple, involving only elementary principles of Mendelian inheritance and no permanent removal of any of Miss Slye's animals from her laboratory, that I cannot see why it should not be supported and begun at once. If Miss Slye's theory is correct, its importance as a practical matter to the human race...
...Chicago Dr. Slye tartly said she could not be bothered with Dr. Little's project simply because "the non-tumor strains with which this preliminary work was done, and which I expanded for this experiment, are now no longer in existence...