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...very difficult to make. Only a few grams have been synthesized-at a cost that would come to $63,800,000 a pound. In an early experiment one and one-half millionth of a gram was obtained from 40,000 Ib. of egg yolks. A primitive protein related to urea, biotin occurs in all living cells and is best known as the antagonist of another protein called avidin, which occurs in raw egg white. One of the biggest problems in biochemistry today is the dynamic balance between these two vital substances...
American flags flew in the streets of London last week and in Sydney crowds sang The Star-Spangled Banner. In Rio de Janeiro one Candido Botelho, a baritone, became the star of the Urea Casino floor show when he sang God Bless America in English against a backdrop of U. S. and Brazilian flags, with chorus girls wearing red, white & blue uniforms...
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Proving there's nothing new under the sun is TIME'S reference (Dec. 30) to experiments of Dr. Robert Marshall Stephan with urea to combat tooth decay. Gaius Valerius Catullus, about 2,000 years ago, wrote: (Ad Egnatius, Canto XXXIX) ". . .We know the Spanish custom, how Spaniards clean their teeth and scour their gums with the same water that issues from their bladders. ... If your teeth are clean, we know how you have used your urine...
...Fortunately for moderns, Dr. Stephan's urea crystals-not yet exhaustively tested-are made synthetically, have no unpleasant taste...