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Studying the nine candidate genes in DNA samples provided by his subjects, Hamer quickly hit the genetic jackpot. A variation in a gene known as VMAT2--for vesicular monoamine transporter--seemed to be directly related to how the volunteers scored on the self-transcendence test. Those with the nucleic acid cytosine in one particular spot on the gene ranked high. Those with the nucleic acid adenine in the same spot ranked lower. "A single change in a single base in the middle of the gene seemed directly related to the ability to feel self-transcendence," Hamer says. Merely having that...
...merry month of December." Mission Control soon interjected a sobering note by notifying them that they were already 40 minutes behind their timetable and that the original objective of their first moon ride had to be scrubbed. But a nearer crater provided an intriguing find: vesicular rocks, containing pockets formed by gas. That was one of several clues that the area had once been the scene of volcanic activity...
Apart from its mission of feeding facts to farmers, the Journal is a tireless, effective crusader on issues great and small. In 1953, within six months after the magazine had demanded, "Let's Make 'Em Cook Raw Garbage" (to kill the vesicular exanthema virus that can infect hogs), 28 states enacted appropriate laws. Currently, Editor Streeter is busily engaged in a crusade in which the stakes are no less than the future of the American farmer, afflicted as he is by a self-defeating Government program that this fiscal year is costing the U.S. taxpayer a scandalous...
This year hog farmers finally took action. Reason: vesicular exanthem, a disease of hogs that, unlike trichinosis, is not transmissible to human beings. Reports the University of Michigan's Professor Arthur Dearth Moore in the A.M.A. Journal: "This virus disease spread in the country at wildfire rate . . . through the feeding of raw garbage. [It] not only hit the large herds of the garbage-feeders but, because of its infectiousness, quarantines were called for that [also] stopped the shipping of grain-fed swine out of many areas. That affected the farmer's pocketbook. Without hesitation, the farmers turned...
...foot-and-mouth plague slipped into Canada in spite of elaborate quarantine precautions to prevent its entry from Europe or Mexico, the nearest infected areas.* The first Canadian case, thought at the time to be vesicular stomatitis (blistering of the mouth), broke out at a Saskatchewan farm on which a German immigrant had worked briefly last November. Investigation proved that the man had worked on an infected farm in Germany shortly before coming to Saskatchewan. Government scientists believed that the virus had been brought in on the immigrant's work clothes...
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