Word: vitro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Verification of their hypothesis in living systems was complicated by the presence of an enzyme which removed the initiator from chains as soon as the chains were completed. They got around this difficulty by first working with in vitro viral systems...
...work extends back ten years, during which period more than 2,000 living human ova have been studied in vitro. Our prime purpose has been to help women with their Fallopian tubes closed or removed to succeed in having children by obtaining a mature egg, fertilizing it in vitro, and then after four to six days transplanting it into the womb. LANDRUM B. SHETTLES, M.D., PH.D. Presbyterian Hospital New York City
...torpedo finder. Able to swim 2,000 ft. beneath the surface, it was built for the U.S. Navy by Vitro Laboratories, can be adapted for commercial use. The Solaris is an eerie, Jules Verne monster that probes the ocean floor with four 500-watt floodlights and a television eye. When it spots a lost torpedo or other wanted object, a giant crab's claw snaps out, hoists the catch back to the surface...
...carry out the plan, Lukens formed the nonprofit National Youth Science Foundation, won backing from some top industrialists, including Vitro Corp.'s Charles S. Payson, Sun Oil's George L. Pew, Upjohn Co.'s E. Gifford Upjohn. They put up $100,000, the start of a campaign for industry-financed "camp-ships" for the kids, who will pay only incidental expenses, v. a $375 cost to the camp for a four-week stay. The program: experimental research, visits from Nobel prizewinners, along with swimming, tennis and field trips to the Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, Mass...