Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cancer, an army of investigators is engaged in history's biggest campaign against a single group of diseases, intensively studying everything that lives, from man through beasts and birds to mushrooms, molds and the lowly virus that causes a mottling disease in tobacco plants. This week TIME, in its cover story, reports in depth and detail on how this crucial battle is going...
...result of mutation, and mutations can be set off by many known factors-inherited defective genes, radiation by X or gamma rays, ultraviolet light, many chemicals, including some of the huge class of hydrocarbons, physical irritation of tissues, and certainly in some animal cancers by the invasion of a virus. There may be other, still unknown factors causing mutation...
...Hottest Thing. "Right now," says National Cancer Institute's Heller, "the hottest thing in cancer is research on viruses as possible causes." The Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Peyton Rous showed as long ago as 1911 (his findings were unpopular at the time) that one cancer (sarcoma) in chickens is caused and can be transmitted by a virus. Over the years, viruses were found to cause other tumors in birds and lower animals. But the gap between them and man seemed unbridgeable. Then the University of Minnesota's Dr. John J. Bittner showed that breast cancer in certain...
...Baby's Formula? Pushing for adoption of live-virus vaccine in the U.S. is Lederle Laboratories, which last week announced that it will boost its live-virus vaccine outlay to $8,000,000, build new production and testing facilities to produce annually 40 million oral doses of vaccine that offer immunity to the three types of polio viruses (TIME, March 16). Lederle has tested the live-virus vaccine on 700,000 people, is hopeful that current tests in South America and the U.S. will prove its effectiveness and safety. Said Lederle General Manager Lyman C. Duncan...
...Jonathan Winters, 33, a roly-poly brainy-zany who has spent most of the past two months as a patient in his favorite subject for humor: the funny farm. While these two once seemed more or less alone in their strange specialty, it is now clear that the virus has spread. Perhaps a dozen other sickniks-some newcomers, some oldtimers with brand-new syndromes-are cleaning up not only in nightclubs but regularly shudder onto the TV screen, and are even invading the record field; Inside Shelley Berman has been near the top of the LP bestseller list...