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Metcalf estimates that Lake Michigan contains 10,000 Ibs. of dissolved DDT. About 50 trillion insects leave the lake annually, each one containing .0000001 gram of the pesticide. If 10% of the bugs were trapped and burned every year−and no more DDT was sprayed around the watershed−...
Oil Eaters. Other scientists are trying to make use of the long-known fact that some bacteria "eat" oil. Can this be applied to oil spills at sea? Though well-funded research projects are under way at such famous oceanographic centers as Rutgers University and Florida State University, the most...
Of the numerous types of cancer, few are more dreaded than acute leukemia. The disease, which often afflicts the young, is characterized by an uncontrolled proliferation of certain white blood cells, which gradually crowd out the vital red blood cells. The cause of this lethal rampage is not yet clear...
Carefully examining the white blood cells of 48 healthy people and three leukemia patients, Gallo and two colleagues−Stringner S. Yang and Robert C. Ting of the Bionetics Research Laboratories−discovered a small but possibly critical difference. The white cells of the leukemia victims showed the presence of...
Deadly Message. Gallo's hypothesis tends to support the iconoclastic ideas of Howard Temin, a University of Wisconsin molecular biologist who long espoused what his colleagues considered a major heresy. According to accepted theory, the hereditary information in the chromosomes of all cells passes in the same direction. Double...