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Human beings will still be used as guinea pigs. They will be needed for experiments, for many questions are still unanswered. Is there any drug that will do any good for a cold? Can a vaccine be developed for MRi? Just how long is a cold "catching?" What effect do...
A Positive Benefit. "Do not expend much powder and shot on Mr. Butler," Charles Darwin advised one of his supporters, "for he is really not worthy of it. His work is merely ephemeral." But Butler, who hated Darwin's evolutionary theory of "natural selection" as much as he hated...
Flu's Round. Vaccination against flu, doctors agree, cannot do anybody much harm. But does it do any good? It worked during the flu epidemics of 1943 and 1945. But it was a flop in 1947, according to a study of students at the University of Chicago. Combined influenza...
What happened between epidemics? Could the virus that caused the flu have changed, while the vaccine did not? The researchers recommended development of a vaccine with wide enough range to hit, blunderbuss fashion, any flu virus that may turn up.
The important thing about Dr. Gollan's experiment: his method, although not startlingly new, proves that a virus can be produced rapidly and cheaply. He took brain tissue from polio-infected mice, chopped it up, put it in an alcohol solution, then precipitated the virus by spinning it in...