Scientists reproduce human growth hormone in lab
UC San Francisco researchers announced the synthesis of human growth hormone in a test tube, potentially easing supply, aiding cancer research, and prompting questions about height, obesity, and disease. The team, led by Dr. C. H. Li and Dr. D. Yamashiro, stringed 188 amino acids to imitate HGH and described its partial biological activity in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
Hormones Key to Sustaining of Life
Article explains hormones as chemical messengers governing growth fertility birth disease resistance and balance. It notes about 25 key hormones with examples of endocrine glands and the hypothalamus masterfully directing pituitary release, linking hormones to cancer and emotion effects.
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Gregory rails at police before 5000 youths in Oakland
Comedian Dick Gregory attacked the police and praised revolutionaries during an Oakland appearance before about 5,000 youths. He equated Angela Davis Huey Newton and H. Rap Brown with historic patriots, denounced a white racist police structure, and urged fair treatment for minorities as Lahey College and district students listened.
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Hoover says racial disorders declined in schools last year
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reported that racial incidents in schools fell from 299 in early 1969 70 to 160 in the same period this year though he warned that broader racial tensions and unwarranted attacks on police persist. He noted a rise in violence by self styled Black Panthers with six police deaths in 1970. In a separate item US Rep John E Moss California received the 1970 Ralph M Brown Award for advancing freedom of information.
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