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Show Aids Research To Retard Cell Growth Roland K. Robins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenith R. Robins of Delta, who is attending Oregon State College Col-lege is one of the college scientists who have discovered a new way to slow cell growth. Plans are to apply the chemicals to cancerous cells. A detailed report of this new method will appear in the Journal ol American cnermcai society, a professional and scientific publication. publica-tion. The publication of this work will carry the name of Roland K. Robins as the senior author of the report. According to a newspaper story which appeared on the front page of the Corvallis newspaper, recently recent-ly the new procedure for making chemicals which retard cellular growth may ultimately help in unraveling problems of uncontrolled uncontrol-led tissue growth. After a years' study under Dr. Bert E. Christensen, OSC chemistry professor, a group of Oregon State College chemists have found an easy way to "build up" new purines pur-ines and pyrimidines which are cleavage products of nucleic acid. This acid plays an important role in the growth of living cells. Several of a series of purines and pyrimidines to be synthesized in the OSC chemistry department laboratories lab-oratories have already proved to slow down cell growth, Dr. Christensen Christ-ensen reported. Later, these chemicals chem-icals will be applied to cancerous cells. Aftp- these growth - stopping chemicals are turned out here they are tested pn certain micro-organ-s - hv D- Vernon H. Cheldelin, SC bioeVrHpt and Dr. Agnar Ny-Taard, Ny-Taard, post doctorate fellow from OSC who is now at Cornell university. univer-sity. To carry on this promising syntheses syn-theses work for a year the United States public health service has granted 5260.00 to Dr. Christensen. Associated with the OSC scientist on this project are Dr. C. H. Wang, OSC research chemist and Roland K. Robins of Delta. Mr. Robins name will appear on the paper of Dr. Agnar Nygaard from Cornell University who is writing wri-ting about the effect of the drugs on micro-organisms. Much of the work was done by Mr. Nygaard and Mr. Robins last summer at the college. Mr. Robins is a graduate of the BYU where he received his Masters Mas-ters Degree in 1949. Since then he has been at Oregon State College Col-lege on a research fellowship doing do-ing work in organic chemistry. He is a member of the chemical honorary hon-orary society and will receive his Doctor's Degree this spring. |