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...cause of toxoplasmosis is its cure. Antibiotics are almost useless. Sulfa drugs are being tried, and if they do any good, the improvement should be most obvious in acute cases. But because toxoplasmosis is hard to identify, the patient often does not get the treatment soon enough. Last week Microbiologist Don E. Eyles of the National Institutes of Health reported a hopeful new lead: Daraprim, which has already shown promise against the protozoa of malaria (TIME, Sept. 1), is effective against toxoplasmosis in mice when given with sulfadiazine. Now the trick is to extend the benefits from mice...
...Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman (TIME, Nov. 7, 1949), 64, for his discovery of streptomycin...
...cells corner a group of disease-causing bacteria and eventually devour them. He has succeeded in making micro-photographs and movies of the process, and has described it in English that any intelligent layman can understand. Introducing Dr. Wood in Manhattan last December, the Rockefeller Institute's famed Microbiologist Rene Dubos remarked dryly that even in phagocytosis, Barry Wood has lived up to his reputation...
...researchers who worked together for seven years to discover the wonder-drug streptomycin, and then had a falling-out last year (TIME, March 20), finally patched up their difference in a New Jersey court. With the approval of Judge E. Thomas Schettino, Rutgers University's famed Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, who has earned close to $400,000 in royalties from the drug, last week acknowledged that his former laboratory assistant Albert Schatz is "entitled to credit legally and scientifically as co-discoverer of streptomycin." Earnest young (30) Dr. Schatz in turn retracted his charge that Waksman had practiced "fraud...
...institute's works, often in obscure fields, have mostly been hidden from the public, which has sometimes benefited only indirectly. Example: at the institute in Manhattan, overlooking the East River, famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos first encouraged bacteria to produce poisons to wipe out other bacteria. Dubos' early antibiotics proved of limited value, but his theory and practice are the foundation on which most of the lifesaving science of antibiotics has been reared. It was also at the institute that the late Alexis Carrel, keeping a piece of chicken heart "alive" under glass, added...