Word: immunologist
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Reasoning that keeping the skin in culture had somehow washed off its antigens (surface proteins that enable the body to distinguish its own cells from foreign material), Summerlin moved to the University of Minnesota to continue his work under Immunologist Robert Good (TIME cover, March 19, 1973). In 1972 he reported that he had succeeded in grafting white skin onto black mice and black skin onto white animals. Last year he told the American Society for Clinical Investigation that he had crossed species barriers and grafted skin from humans, guinea pigs and pigs onto mice...
Hannoun reported that by using a technique devised by Australian Immunologist Fazekas de Saint Groth, his research team had artificially caused such mutants to evolve. He was confident that they had anticipated all the minor changes that nature could produce in the next five years. Thus, he claims, they have produced a vaccine effective against all strains that may develop naturally from now until about 1978. Samples prepared before the London flu strain emerged, he said, had proved 84% effective in tests on human subjects...
...George Feinberg, a U.S. immunologist working at Britain's Beecham Research Laboratories, the killing power of penicillins made no sense...
...smaller molecules. The system can remember all through its life how to make them, and how to muster them to repel an invading virus. But why, having once started, does it not keep on manufacturing them rather than wait for a new invasion? Neither Dr. Uhr nor any other immunologist can be certain, but there seems to be a feedback mechanism whereby, once the blood is sated with antibody, it yells "Enough!," and the antibody factory shuts down...
Though Dr. Uhr has worked with some viruses that infect man, most of his experiments have been with the tiny ΦX174, which normally attacks only bacteria. It may seem a long leap to any useful application in human medicine, but Immunologist Uhr, who is now director of the Irvington House Institute for Rheumatic Fever and Allied Diseases, has already shown that newborn babies react to ΦX in much the same way as guinea pigs. And children's reactions to antigens are immensely important in rheumatic fever, which seems to result from the body's mistaking part...