Show f a Artificial Life Cells CelIs t Created in Effort to 4 Find Cure Cur for Cancer If Nc k Dt r Crile Explains Strange r Di Discovery to Men of Science u. u S By HOWARD BLAKESLEE Press Science Editor CLEVELAND D Dec 29 9 API AP AP- I created life me cell of Th The artificially Dr George one W. W is an attempt to ta penetrate the tho mystery ery of at cancer broke broko his si- si Ih Tte Cleveland ant tax j I C about the recent rumors o of jils discovery cry and revealed 1 tho the se- se J to the American Association for Ad Advancement of at Science today ertle's accomplishment Is doi do- do r i tried most simply as breaking to bits and anti put- put Iles 1112 Mm him together again so that hot ho t alive t t 1 The Humpty he emIf emi em- em It If i Jor are lre e cells the tiny Uny units fonnI form form- I r. r tag ier bodies of ot animals which are arest st Iho tho prototype of oC all eggs 1 t Die He lIe has tried this on brain body Md sod cancer ancer cells but tho the brain cell stone fond on thus far has hns shown hown the mas- mas qualities necessary for tor the rejuvenation I CANCER PUZZLES I II cells were used a aA a When en c cancer I A i different effect was tou found nd one I o significance has not been deU del determined de de- l U for tor Crile said ald this Is 15 a ato to preliminary report Tho research he said was was undertaken un undertaken un- un for tor the purpose of or discovering c ering some ph physical principle which mIght account for tor tho conversion of normal cells into cancer cells t i Th This Is into cells tho energy of oC which IH Is used only for tor growth This wild growth is 15 tho the outstanding ln ing characteristic of at all cancer Criba said he went to work on the principle that the fertilized eggs of at animals tho the ovum contain elements clements that electrically aro both positive tad tod negative i He Be postulated d d that if it tho the substances sub sub- stances forming a a. living cell were mixed together properly in an cl electrical elec solution called an electrolyte thee substances would organize themselves into a n. unit which would present a a. form torm I BRAIN CELLS REACT In other words something lifelike might result without intervention of at the usual union of ot male malo and female elements Ho Ito separated brain cells Into their C constituent fats proteins and ash He found that only fresh brains retained 10 re- tho the power to reunite but that by preserving the fats in ether he could wait walt perhaps a 1 month after death and still get the tho return When ready the three brain substances substances substances sub- sub stances were mixed In distilled j water containing some salts alls a laboratory laboratory laboratory lab- lab oratory made substitute for tho the waft watery watery wa wa- ft tery elements clements in which tho brain t cells colls normally live Uvo Tho The salts pro- pro i du ed tho the electrical effect Jn In this water the scattered brain matter reunited into microscopic I objects having tho shape shapo of at cells I n. n nucleus or center and hairlike projections 1 They rhey grew rew like living things Sometimes Sometime said Mid Cille they did thisby this thisby i t by putting out buds and sometimes by dividing each cach artificial cell thus f E becoming two just Jutt as as in natures nature's 5 method of at growth CONSUME OXYGEN fe ui They They consumed oxygen and they off ott carbon arbon dioxide as lUI do other living breathing things They Thoy showed the tho power of at rapid movement so BO that sometimes sometime's it was difficult to keep ke-ep them under the fied of at tho microscope They took vital stains which is a n. method ori of or i using dyes to make tiny objects visible risible Th f experiment said Crne Crile I roveal revealed d clearly that they the brain lipoid in being the possessor of at a structure that has the power of oC organizing organizing or or- the proteins of oC an any organ By Dy feeding these cells celts were kept alive and active for two and ono ono- half halt months mouths But cells from other organs of or gave only feeble reactions and no power of ot organization Tho The artificial recreation did not work on on all brains It failed on dogs which died of ot distemper and partly failed tailed on rabbits that died of l exhaustion violet Ultra rn radiation lation killed the rejuvenation Uon power and said It would seem that tho the fetal ef effect of- of feet of oC radiation must be exerted on th the lipoid fat tat elements of at cancer cancer cancer can can- can can- celli The rho o and proteins extracted extracted extracted ex ex- from a L cancer when mixed with a 3 solution of oC tho the ash l of oC the same samo cancer did not cells celts b but t a bizarre structure characterized character character- bed by tho the appearance of ot man many ta fatty ty drop droplets |