Show P. P Pasteur New Traffic Cop for Foods The chemical identification of or a directs cellular traffic cop which the human body's utilization of food along the smooth and efficient road of respiration instead of the energy- energy wasting detour of fermentation was announced by Dr Kurt G G. G Stern of the Yale university school of medi medi- cine I Without this strategic substance Dr Stern Stem declared in his address at the meeting of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York section of the American Chemical society each adult would have to consume the daily equivalent of 10 loaves of bread Dr Dr Stern and his research associates asSOciates associates asso asSO- Dr Joseph L L. L Melnick and Del Delafield afield DuBois named the newly identified substance the Pasteur enzyme in honor of Dr Louis Pasteur Pasteur Pasteur Pas Pas- who in 1861 discovered an antiI anti- anti I fm effect while carrying out his experiments on yeast and andI I the fermentation of beer In the cells of the human body fermentation tion converts sugar into lactic acid instead of alcohol A possible new insight into the chemical riddle of cancer was hinted hinted hinted hint hint- ed by Dr Stern in recalling the discovery several years ago ngo by Dr Otto Warburg Nobel Prize winner in medicine that tumor cells are I especially active in fermenting sugar sugar sugar su su- su- su gar into lactic acid He suggested that this might be bc due to a shortage of the newly identified Pasteur en en- In of the fact that spite some i tumor strains can derive all the energy energy energy en en- I ergy they need from respiration Dr Stern pointed out they may may form as much as their own weight I in lactic acid per day provided that they are furnished the necessary sugar I A sufficient supply of the Pasteur enzyme he argued might prevent this diversion of the normal food supply I |