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...Human cancer will grow in laboratory rats if they have been pretreated with cortisone or X rays. Dr. Helene W. Toolan left some rats untreated, planted human cancer tissue in them and a week later took blood and tissue specimens from the animals. Fresh pieces of cancer tissue were immersed in this material, then transplanted into pretreated rats. These implants failed to grow. The cancer had been neutralized by an immune mechanism in the blood of the first, untreated rats. ¶ Properdin, a chemical that occurs naturally in the blood, is one of the factors in immunity. Zymosan. a yeast...
...intestine). A fluoroscope can keep track of the pill's position in the body, while a receiver picks up the FM signals, presents them to the examiner on an oscilloscope as graph waves. Prospects are good that the transmitter will replace awkward, uncomfortable tubes now used to supplement X-ray examination. The pill broadcaster may help spy out certain hard-to-diagnose ailments, e.g., colitis (inflammation of the large intestine...
...long-term dream of airplane designers, the jet-powered vertical take-off plane, became an official reality last week. The Air Force announced that Ryan Aeronautical Co. has test-flown successfully its jet X-13 VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), putting it through all its paces after 18 months of partial tests...
...X-13, named the Vertijet. is a small, delta-winged job that takes off from a suspended position, hanging from a framework like a bat. Last week Test Pilot Peter F. Girard, sitting on his back with his face to the sky. started its powerful jet engines. As the roaring exhaust hit the pavement below, a spray of dirt and melted tar boiled into the air. When the X-13 became airborne, Pilot Girard maneuvered it off its suspension rig and free of the framework. Then he flew it upward like a deliberate rocket and made a gradual pushover...
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