Word: biochemist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Biochemist Paul Leland Kirk of the University of California and a graduate student, Clifton Bennett, announced a sure, swift, new syphilis test. A sore trial for pathologists, the speedy test, invented in 1935 by Dr. George Franklin Laughlen of Toronto, Ont., was fussed over for four years before it could be made practical for general use. Using the new technique and "Laughlen antigen" in 150 syphilis blood samples, Professor Kirk called all the shots, made no false diagnoses...
...Richest source of anti-scurvy Vitamin C is oranges and lemons. But in times of war or famine, suggested Biochemist Otto Arthur Bessey of Harvard, almost any kind of seed, kept in water until it sprouts, and then eaten raw, is an excellent substitute. The vitamin has some strange relationship to metabolism, for manual laborers and athletes need large quantities of C-rich foods. Another little-known fact: the vitamin mysteriously disappears from the bodies of tuberculosis patients. Victims of diabetes, when given large amounts of vitamin C, usually require smaller doses of insulin to regulate their carbohydrate metabolism...
...famed researchers such as Dermatologist Wilhelm Frei, Dr. Carl Lange, inventor of the Lange test for syphilis, and Biochemist Rudolf Schoenheimer have found little difficulty in securing hospital and university appointments. Other valuable medical scientists, some of whom have not yet achieved medical prominence, are helped by the 77 well-known members of Manhattan's Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Medical Scientists, including Drs. Bernard Sachs, Ernst Philip Boas, John Augustus Hartwell, William Hallock Park, and headed by famed Clinician Emanuel Libman. The Committee, which is nondenominational, administers funds received from the National Coordinating Committee Fund...
That the delicate linings of the nose are influenced by sex hormones is a theory well-known to biologists. Four years ago Biochemist Hector Mortimer of Montreal's McGill University and his colleagues, Dr. Robert Percy Wright and Nobel Prize-sharer James Bertram Collip, one of the discoverers of insulin, decided to put the theory to practical use. They dropped small amounts of female sex hormone estrogen into the noses of patients who suffered from atrophic rhinitis (withering of the nasal mucous membranes). Many patients recovered. But they were amazed when one woman announced that a ringing...
Front Lobe. The pituitary gland consists of three parts, two lobes and a narrow middle. In the smaller rear lobe, two hormones have been fairly well identified (alpha-hypophamine and beta-hypophamine), which appear respectively to influence uterine contractions and blood pressure. Biochemist James Bertram Collip of Montreal's McGill University discovered a hormone of the middle pituitary (appropriately called intermedia) which affects, though it does not exclusively control, the blood sugar level...