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Anne Sayre '43, author of "Rosalind Franklin and DNA," said Thursday that James D. Watson, former Cabot professor of Natural Sciences and a Nobel laureate for his experiments in elucidating the structure of DNA, committed "extensive robbery" of Franklin's experimental results in X-ray crystallography...
Lipscomb began studying the interactions between boron and hydrogen in the early '50s. Using a technique known as X-ray crystallography, he determined the structure of molecules containing these atoms (called boranes or boron hydrides) and went on to establish a sound theoretical basis for that structure...
...that his doctors had been on the lookout for cancer ever since they had found and removed several pinhead-size nonmalignant growths in his bladder in 1968. Five years later, they discovered some new, possibly cancerous tissue, which was promptly treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda for symptoms of a urinary-tract...
Rapaport notes that some of the early kidney transplant recipients, including Riteris, were in fact also irradiated. But in most cases the technique proved unreliable-in part because of uncertainties about how much X-ray dosage the body could withstand-and was thus abandoned. Rapaport believes, however, that his dog experiments now indicate that these problems could be solved, and that irradiation, plus bone-marrow reconstitution, may eventually offer a way of eliminating troublesome immunosuppressive drug therapy in human transplant recipients as well...
...were still in medical practice, Dr. Guy R. Newell, NCI'S deputy director, said that he would have no hesitation recommending mammography for any woman over 50. "For a woman under 50," he added, "I would tell her that there is a risk attached to the X-ray technique, a small risk that she might get breast cancer 15 to 30 years from now. But I would also state that by then there is a good chance there will be better treatment and a possible cure...