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...nerve cell is not, as had been thought, a fixed and static structure, but one that continually forms new connections and breaks up old ones while producing biochemical substances to regulate faraway organs. In the hope of stimulating this neuronal activity, he tried feeding ribonucleic acid (RNA) from yeast to memory-deficient patients in Montreal (TIME, May 18, 1962). After he moved to Albany, he cast around for a better drug and hit upon Cylert, a combination of pemoline (marketed in Europe as a stimulant since 1956) and magnesium hydroxide. The compound apparently stimulates the brain's production...
...broken down biochemically into much smaller molecules before it can reach the brain. But a drug that increases RNA production in the brain itself might get around this objection. Psychiatrist D. Ewen Cameron, who has tried to improve oldsters' failing memories with injections of RNA from yeast (with still-disputed results), is now testing Cylert at the VA hospital in Albany, N.Y. Says Cylert's co-developer, Biochemist Glasky: "We are going to have trials on thousands of people and should know in about six months whether the drug is effective. But then it might take years...
...list of immigrants and their sons who helped to mold American art and industry, politics and science is endless. There were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri...
...benefits to man are countless. The fragile inky cap is delicious if gathered young and cooked promptly. Lichen, formed by the union of fungi and algae, eats into rock, prepares it to become new soil. The molds that make Camembert are fungi; so are the yeasts that leaven bread and ferment grapes, grains, berries, cacti, honey and camel's milk into alcohol. Yeasts keep industry in ferment as well, assist in the manufacture of paint remover, antifreeze, synthetic rubber, adhesives, cosmetics and perfume. Yeast-feeding produces better pelts in mink, more honey from bees, faster growth in trout...
Died. Dolly O'Brien, 70, belle of Palm Beach from the '20s to the '40s, whose ageless blonde beauty, irrepressible wit and $5,000,000 worth of yeast from her second husband, Julius Fleischmann, so charmed the swains that Clark Gable, among others, proposed to her when she was well past 50 but was turned down as husband No. 4 because she could not countenance moving to Hollywood; after a succession of strokes; in West Palm Beach...