It was Medical Research Week at Atlantic City, N.J., last week as 13,000 biological scientists and physicians gathered to hear some 3,000 papers presented by three professional fellowships: the American Association for Cancer Research, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs. Among the highlights:
ΒΆ Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute has discovered that a nonflammable part of a waxlike chemical in tobacco smoke acts to inhibit substances that can cause cancer. The anticancer agent (Wynder once thought that the entire substance...
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