Word: yeasting
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When the late-Heywood Broun whipped up the American Newspaper Guild in 1933, he put in a generous helping of yeast. As the Guild, a C.I.O. affiliate since 1937, grew big and 25,000-strong, its members turned out to be such passionate unionists that many a local meeting developed into a battle royal that lasted half the night. Few hairs remained unsplit, whether the issue was politics or personalities. Last week it was both...
Alcoholism and other forms of neurosis, currently so fashionable on the screen, are here presented without the usual hocus-pocus and yeast-endorser's jargon...
...Spiegelman and Kamen worked with yeast cells, proved that their chemical behavior could be changed, while the genes remained unchanged. This suggested strongly that something besides the genes affected cell characteristics...
...spot this "something," they used the ultramodern technique of radioactive tracers. First they grew yeast cells in a solution containing radioactive phosphorus-32, whose uneasy atoms the cells built into certain of their proteins. With a Geiger counter, the scientists could follow these radioactive protein molecules...
...Control. What good was the discovery? The biological revolutionists were reluctant to say. But they admitted (with a gleam in their eyes) that it gave a new, promising method of controlling cell life and growth. They had already con trolled yeast cells by regulating competition among plasmagenes. Future biologists might do the same with bacteria cells or man cells...