Fingerprinting Techniques Developed by Weizmann Institute Scientist BY BEN FRANK a project which has opened up new worlds of insight into what An Israeli scientist who heads makes us "tick," may soon be the microbiology laboratory at the called on to work on other re- Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, search which as GE said, "affects Israel, has been deeply involved in our very lives." a "fingerprinting" technique that may soon lead to •a new method of detecting and identifying the bac- teria that affect man's health and well being. Conducting research in the General Electric Company's elec- tronics laboratory at Syracuse, Why was 13 an unlucky number? N. Y. and at Cornell University, Who was the "real McCoy"? Ithaca, N. Y., was Dr. Yigal Henis Why is fish eaten on Friday by who for a year shuttled back and Catholics? forth between Syracuse and Ithaca How did "Adam's apple" get its working in microbial metabolism name? research that led to the discovery. Why does the groom have a General Electric said that the "best man"? Why is blue for boys and pink discovery provides a method of study involving a revolutionary for girls? Who was the first "April fool"? "fingerprinting" technique which The answer to these and many will reduce significantly the ex- similar questions can be found in tremely valuable time required a new book titled "How Did It to analyze samples of clinical Begin?" by Rabbi R. Brasch, which specimens. Detection and iden- David McKay Company will pub- tification, said GE, now take lish Aug. 15. days or weeks by classical meth- The customs, superstitions, and ods. The discovery would reduce expressions that are part of our this time to hours. daily lives and language have fas- Dr. Henis conducted research in cinating histories. For example, we specific areas of the project. The clink glasses after a toast because Israeli, who received his master our ancestors believed that this of science in bacteriology in 1955 noise would frighten away the evil and a PhD from the Hebrew Uni- spirits that naturally gather e d versity of Jerusalem in 1959, around intoxicating beverages. And worked on the discovery in which today's hearty handshake was once the implications are tremendous considered the only means of pre- and an area which GE said "we -venting a stranger from reaching would have to be careful not to for his weapon. By grasping the comment on since this is the field hand of anyone he met, a man of other scientific and medical could be certain that he would specialists." be safe from attack. Fear, not Dr. Henis and his associates in- friendship, lies behind this familiar vestigated pure strains of bacteria custom. Coincidences of the past as well in the project which actually be- gan two years ago. The scientists have added many traditions and found that the pattern of metabolic ways of doing things to our daily products of each of the 32 strains lives. Why, for instance, do men's examined is distinct, thus provid- trousers have cuffs? In the late nineteenth century, it seems, a ing an identifying fingerprint. The young Rehovot scientist visiting English gentleman was on worked on the technique that pro- his way to a party in New York vides a new opportunity to study when he was suddenly caught in a the basic life processes of micro- rain storm. The gentleman, not organisms and will help scientists wishing his trousers to get too learn more about organisms be- wet, rolled up the bottoms to pro- lieved responsible for certain dis- tect them. In the excitement of the eases, according to Henry F. Mayer, party, he forgot to remove these manager of the electronics labora- "cuffs." The guests, thinking this the latest English fashion, quickly tory. followed his example. And that's Mayer said that the investiga- way it's been ever since. tion was undertaken by the Gen- the Our language is full of references eral Electric Co. for the U. S. Air to historical figures and events. Force office of scientific research. Few have heard of Captain Charles Cornell University cooperated in C. Boycott, who in the 1870s was the research under a subcontract sent to Ireland to collect rents for from General Electric. an absentee English landlord. The Now back in Israel heading again Irish tenants chose to fight back the Rehovot microbiology labora- by completely ignoring his pres- tory, Dr. Henis after working on ence. So successful were their methods that "Boycott" is still used to describe the treatment he received. Almost everyone has wondered HARRY THOMAS why it's "bad luck" to walk under a ladder or why there are buttons HAS THE FINEST SELECTION OF on the sleeve of a coat that seem SPORTS COATS to serve no purpose whatsoever. 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