Word: diphtheria
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...research was banned completely in Cambridge, and eventually the City Council passed an ordinance which made binding the National Institute of Health's guidelines for genetics research. The council also outlawed the so-called "P-4" research, or the most dangerous experimentation dealing with infectious organisms such as diphtheria toxin and yellow fever virus...
...gallantry of the immigrant provider who got a foothold on U.S. soil only to have the Depression whittle it to a scrabbling fingerhold on survival. Simon is openly comfortable with the Jewishness of his characters, and he knows the dread words that are italicized whispers in this home: "cancer," "diphtheria," "heart attack...
...experiments potential benefits to cancer research outweigh the potential dangers of the project, which uses recombinant DNA techniques to introduce diphtheria-producing genes into E colt bacteria...
Although the experiments may prove un workable because of differences in the biology of the bacteria and the diphtheria toxin. Murphy has expressed hope that the project will demonstrate the feasibility of using a foreign host to produce toxin...
Murphy's previous work with the diphtheria toxin, one of the most dangerous persons known, has been considered safe because the fragments of the toxin molecule with which he works are biologically inactive...