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The big difficulty was that the ACTH molecule is a protein, a long chain of amino acid groups linked together in a special sequence like a phrase in telegraphic code. If the code is not reproduced properly, synthetic ACTH will not do the magical things in the human body that...
ACTH is produced by the pea-sized pituitary gland at the base of the brain. It seems to be a hormone's hormone; when the blood carries it to the adrenal glands on the kidneys, it stimulates the production of many other hormones that regulate vital functions of the...
In the autumn of 1958, the U.S. exploded three rocket-launched nuclear bombs 300 miles above the South Atlantic. Purpose of the explosions, known as Project Argus, was to test the theory that charged particles released by the blasts would be trapped in the earth's magnetic field like...
All signs are that Washington was wrong. In a recent bulletin issued by the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet woman scientist, Geophysicist V. A. Troitskaya, reports that the shots showed up almost instantly on Soviet instruments designed to measure minute electric currents flowing through the earth. Apparently the explosions...
In the tight little world of U.S. science, Caltech's Richard P. Feynman, 42, is almost as famed for far-out humor as for his professional accomplishments. One of the nation's most gifted teachers and researchers in the field of quantum mechanics. Feynman is also one of...