European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doc Stockholm up three swedish scientists have announced they have increased number of chromosomes in Mam Mals for the first time in open ing up fantastic possibilities in animal Breeding and possibly later in human giant double the size of their parents and bearing 66 chromosomes in Stead of the Normal rabbits have been produced during the trios three years of and similar experiments have now been begun on the three were Goesta professor of histology at Stockholm med ical school Allan veterinary sur Geon at Stockholm veterinary and Yngve master of science of Lund All three emphasized their results were Only preliminary and that much research was still necessary before the possibilities could be actually applied to the Breeding of Domestic even humans might be bred in giant form some Haggqvist but he warned that k would Long time before scientists could even begin to consider this the biggest step in the current re search is still ahead of the three Scien Melander the triploid Rab bits with 66 chromosomes instead of the Normal diploid rabbits Are he Only when they create tetraploid with an additional set of chromosomes which always occur in multiples of 11 will reproduction and further Breeding be Bane said the basis of the experiments was the drug known As an alkaloid found in the autumn he Anes theties the nucleus dividing which re sults in an abnormal division and produces giant cells regularly containing twice the Normal number of Chromo Between 10 and 15 rabbits weighing pounds have been bred from parents weighing Only pounds during the sex and the number of such births is increasing As the scientists skill Bane m tit the stars and stripes feature Section