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...from rich uncles to whom they did not know they were related: nuclear physics, polymer chemistry, rheology (flow of liquids), gas dynamics, cybernetics, electron microscopy. Out of a rich harvest of intelligence from the physical and biological sciences, surgeons have learned how to use heart-lung machines, artificial kidneys, X-ray cameras to take pictures inside the heart-a whole host of machines that could never have been made...
...X-ray the Transplant. Now at the Medical College of Virginia, Dr. Hume has begun kidney transplants with modified techniques. First, Dr. Hume removes both of the patient's diseased kidneys, to lower blood pressure and to guard against infection and especially against glomerulonephritis. After the operation, Dr. Hume doses the transplant itself with X rays, on the theory that if antibody-loaded cells are moving in to attack the kidney, they will be concentrated around the target. One important thing, says Dr. Hume, is to get the replacement kidneys fresh. Most cadaver kidneys are. in effect, "in shock...
Died. Friedrich Joseph Dessauer, 81, pioneering West German radiologist and Roman Catholic author (Religion in the Light of Contemporary Science), who built the first device capable of taking multiple X-ray photographs of the human heart beating, and was one of the first to discover radiation's therapeutic value in the treatment of tumors; of radiation poisoning (a toxic dose, which he absorbed in his 20s, continued to poison his body until it finally caused his death); in Frankfurt...
...only two proteins have yielded to X-ray analysis of this type--hemoglobin and myoglobin. The latter, which carries oxygen in the muscles, was the first whose structure was determined. Kendrew's model shows it to be a three-dimensional "lace-work of fabulous complexity," devoid of any regular or simplifying features, apart from the alpha-helix...
...Perutz' X-ray studies of hemoglobin have not yet reached the same high degree of resolution and show far less detail than Kendrew's X-ray analysis of myoglobin, which Perutz says "opened a rich mine of stereochemical information about protein structure...