Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greene's "laboratory" is a guinea pig's eye. Delicately, he plants various types of foreign tissue in the pigs' eyes. Some "take" and grow. Sometimes the transplanted tissue becomes cancerous. Sometimes it develops the characteristics of functioning organs. Cancer specialists, who used to be skeptical, have begun to take a lively interest in Dr. Greene's work. Last week the doctor talked about it before a distinguished audience at the American Cancer Society's annual meeting in Manhattan...
Cancer tissue, as researchers have long known, can easily be transplanted from one mammalian species to another. When Dr. Greene grafted human cancer tissue on a guinea pig's eye (a nourishing and easy-to-watch site for experiment), the transplanted cancer thrived in its new environment. But his efforts to transplant normal adult human tissue to the guinea pig's eye failed...
Princetonians themselves will be the guinea pigs in specific researches coming up. But it will all go on in a quite and unobstrusive way. Since no recommendations concerning methods of instruction or other matters of educational policy lie within the scope of the project, fact-finding for its own sake will be the order of the day. The method of attack will consist in "critical objective analysis, proceeding a step at a time from the simple to the complex as results accumulate...
Although Magic Town is not worked out with much acuteness or grace, it views with a wholesome if very mild disapproval: 1) the overwillingness of many Americans to play guinea pig with their private lives; 2) their ugly and pathetic capacity for materialistic vanity; and 3) the ease with which affection and rust can be abused in dedication...
...descent will be made, if all goes well, in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa, some time in September. First, Professor Piccard intends to drop the unmanned bathyscaphe into the sea with a pressure-controlled instrument on board to bring it up again when it has reached a certain depth. If it rises as he expects it to do, the professor himself will take the plunge...