Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belkacem Krim, 35, now the senior military man in Algeria's Front de Libération Nationale. Like most Algerian rebel leaders, moody Belkacem Krim, who has five death sentences hanging over his balding head, rarely discusses his personal activities. But from Paris last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow reported...
...They laughed when I sat down at my test tubes." That is how the - University of California's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist Wendell M. Stanley might have begun his San Francisco lecture. For many physicians thought that Stanley had gone much too far when he suggested that viruses, or virus-like particles, might be responsible for all forms of cancer. But in support of his hypothesis, Stanley last week marshaled a phalanx of evidence from more than a dozen high-powered researchers as well as from his own laboratories...
...Said Stanley: "Since there is no evidence that human cancer is infectious, and because viruses are infectious agents, many investigators believe that they cannot be important in the causation of human cancer." Not necessarily true, argued Stanley...
Viruses are known to cause many animal tumors, have been shown to be bafflingly versatile-both infectious and noninfectious in turn, depending upon a variety of complex technical factors. Stanley noted many oddities about viruses: man has coursing through his body many kinds that were unknown a few years ago; they can mutate to new strains that cause different disease symptoms...
...real puzzler: viruses are closely related to the genes that determine inherited characteristics-so closely that they have been dubbed "naked genes." This may help explain what some researchers regard as inherited tendencies to cancer. Concluded Stanley: "The time has come when we should change our thinking about cancer-virus relationships...