Medicine: Biologists

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology met last week at Cleveland.

Concerning glandular rejuvenation and the theories upon which the famed Steinach operation is performed, Dr. R. M. Oslund of the University of Illinois offered evidence that, of the two types of cells produced by the reproductive glands, it is the germ cells, and not the interstitial cells, that generate the eye-brightening, step-quickening, youth-giving hormones.

Concerning paralysis from spinal injury, Dr. R. W. Gerard of the University of Chicago described severances of the spinal cord in embryo rats which mended...

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