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...cold-sore sufferers; in Paris, a team of Pasteur Institute virologists, led by Dr. Pierre Lépine, has developed a vaccine that shows definite promise. They grew herpes simplex virus in cultures of kidney cells taken from sheep embryos; then the live virus was inactivated by exposure to ultraviolet light. As part of the testing program, the vaccine was injected into 20 patients who suffered from recurrent cold sores. After one year, eleven of the patients have had no recurrence of their herpes simplex eruptions, seven patients have shown marked improvement, and only two have failed to benefit from...
...reasons unknown, drugs of the tetracycline family concentrate more in cancer cells, and stay in them longer, than they do in normal cells. Tetracycline has the further peculiarity of glowing yellow under ultraviolet light. To put these peculiarities to use, doctors generally give suspected cancer patients a dose of tetracycline four times a day for two days, then wait 36 hours for the drug to leave all the body's cells except those that may be cancerous. After that, samples of body fluid drained from the areas involved are centrifuged, spread on filter paper, dried and examined under ultraviolet...
...ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT. After a riot has been quelled, invisible particles that have been sprayed on the mob "will show up when police, using special scanners, interrogate people at identification checkpoints, and will thus enable them to identify mob participants...
...Chicago News devoted twelve column inches to NBC's plan to use ultraviolet-light transmitters in the Cow Palace. THE BATTLE OF COMPUTERS: A TV THRILLER, headlined the Detroit Free Press. In New York, under a no-surprise headline-NETWORK CARAVANS CARRY TV GADGETS AND MEN TO COAST G.O.P. RALLY-the Times totted up the logistics of the move: 1,500 TV hands, nearly 50 miles of cable for NBC alone...
When a nurse wanted to give them food or medicine or a bedpan, she took it from a sterile cabinet, pushed it through an outer port in the console, and closed the door. Automatically, ultraviolet radiation was switched on to kill off late-arriving bacteria. Then she slipped her hands into the long gloves built into the side of the plastic. With these, she could reach any part of the interior. She opened the inner port of the air-lock and passed the article to the patient. When he had finished, whether with meal tray or bedpan...