Evening star., 1949-06-17
Every AnimoI Body Cell
Found Mole or Female
Fsaainss CO Sex Dsserrniasssea
Told by Canadaan S~seasssss
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plain In shrsE fvpoTt eaztasns IN Ea msssassss
. distinct. comparatively lAsEe ard usRaatsy
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ssAafsa easily aa6 II q eel ~ iAFee 40 o H@xve
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clsas. as q sEnAllwr ecay-scmessnass sw1 or
lares O! thezn--wnAea b cs Tie sasas knxgNl
shaFe The two Canadian electors tern taaa
Tire "nacaeeaa- satellite s. These soaaes have
often been observed before sus No fansssca
has ne~n aseyfh~d 10 thea
In The nerve cells et teEnais cats rvear<sas~a
Of where they are found In The hocy. Ihezs
satellites are weai married stAln easily, ana
can D. seen under . nseEusecgss With nstie
trouble, Ihs Ontario exr~stmenta show Ia
nerve e~tas of male oAss ca Tire ether hAssd
they are very sndtsttnst. peeSty Termed ard
eaE be 1fIrctcd at al u3aty under very han
power mAgnsneatsoa
Preliminary examination Of human taksaes
has shown the same difference. n 10 ecza-
mon 20 tissue from hfaia. spinal cord and
nerve sangfia throughout The eoay win
better technique the two sc,sataxss helisvs. u
viii be found 70 Apply 10 essentially every cell
In the body
They found no diffc,iity In tsillns the sss
o! cats from small hlss of tissue The
development may prove et fay.Teashing
significance i'm criminal investigations and
identtncations
The discovery. they say. was Incidental 10
work carried cut under contract with The
Institute OF Aviation Medicine Of the Regal
Canadian Air Force
Production I'm the laboratory Of q new
species Of warm -biocded Animal--prehahsy
reported By txo Edinburgh uniserst,y
prs. c. Auerhaeh and D, q Faloonsr OF
the Edinburgh Institute of Animal oenellca.
subjected mice 20 the action Of mustard gaA
they report In Nature. ofseiai Journal es the
British Association for the Advanoemenl Of
Science. II has been recognized Tor soms
time from experiments with frasa niss that
nitrogen mustard has an action very simllar
70 Arrays On al pody CELIA tnciudtng lha
germ cells which contain the hereditary
characters Of the organism The Gas has
been found a. good Is x.radiation IN the
treatment OF certain conditions Of ths hlood
closely allied 70 cancer.
Dtnereni Prem rarents.
A few OF the mice gave birth 10 animals
quite different from the parents, character.
ized BY peculiar folding OF The cara, absence
OF hairs on the tail and behind the earn, O
small kink at the extreme tip os The tall,
and thin coat with ali tho hairs pointing
10 the midline OF the hack. These char.
acteristios were preserved In the second and
third generations and apparently are nxed
In the future heredity OF the race
Any such mutation tn higher animals
usually ID accompanied By steriiity, or The
early death of tho individual Ths new
species OF mice. however. b entirely fsrtala
and healthy.
Something similar must have occurred
many times In nature 10 account for ths vide
variety OF animal species. The Kdinburth
doctors believe the change was brought about
by the effect Of the mustard Gas on q single
one OF the thousand or more genes which
account for moases heredity.