Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Throughout 1974, Faisal's actions about oil prices and related matters touched, in various degrees, the lives and pocketbooks of virtually every human being on earth. Politically, too, 1974 was marked by the increasing cohesion and power of the Arab world, a surging strength fueled by the largest transfer of capital in history. In all this, the shrewd and dedicated King has played a key role...
...group of Harvard biochemists gathered last April in the spartan office of Assistant Professor David Dressier to toast one another with champagne. They had ample cause for celebration: their ten months of experiments on a "transfer factor" in animal immunology had produced spectacular results, gaining publication in scientific journals and the attention of immunologists round the world. Furthermore, one of the group, Steven Rosenfeld, an undergraduate Wunderkind who had started the research as a summer project-had just been elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
Last week the once proud group was in disarray. Rosenfeld, 21, was in hiding after a disciplinary board had forced him to leave Harvard in disgrace. The reputation of Dressier, a respected scientist, had been somewhat tarnished. Most important, serious doubt had been cast on the validity of the transfer factor experiments...
Those experiments had confirmed the existence of a transfer factor, a substance that apparently enabled the scientists to transfer immunity against foreign substances from one animal to another. The research had far-reaching implications for immunology and cancer research. In fact, the early results were so significant that one paper reporting them was sponsored for publication in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by James D. Watson, the Harvard biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize for helping to decipher the structure of the genetic material DNA. Since April, however, attempts by Dressler's group to duplicate...
...published papers about the project. Dressier says that he will try to reproduce the experiments for another six months before giving up, but adds, "It's only human to have doubts." James Watson is more definite. Says he: "I think it's best to conclude that the transfer factor doesn't exist...