European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday september 13, 1985 scientists map 3-d makeup of cold virus breakthrough could help find cure for Many human ailments Washington a it s not a cure for the com Mon cold but it could be the biggest step yet in that direction As Well As a Ray of Hope to finding cures for other More deadly diseases researchers say. Scientists said wednesday they had mapped the three dimensional makeup of a microscopic cold causing virus the first time any human virus has been completely detailed including tiny Points of vulnerability where future vaccines or other drugs might be aimed. The composite image was produced from data fed into a super computer.1 since viral agent Are to blame for Many human ail ments including the deadly As Well As the annoying the new findings could be significant in fights against diseases ranging from Stuffy noses to multiple sclerosis to leukaemia and even perhaps the mysterious aids virus said the Lead researcher Purdue University professor Michael Ross Mann. He told a roomful of reporters that Many viruses can cause colds meaning there May never tie a one shot sneeze and sniffles preventing vaccine. However be said that in Light of his group s findings it May be possible to find a cure for the cold that May not be along the Linns of a classic vaccine a drug for exam ple that instead of attacking the virus itself would lure it away from areas where it might otherwise attach to healthy cells. Seeing the detailed makeup of cold viruses Down to three Hundred Millionth of l centimetre makes chances of developing effective anti viral drugs much More possible he said. Still Rossmann emphasized that it would be up to others to develop drug counter applications for his find Ings which resulted from experiments done in collaboration with a Wisconsin group headed by Roland Rueckert and which depended heavily on High technology Machin Ery at Purdue and Cornell universities. As for its broader significance the work adds up to a Good Basic piece of information William Allen a virology program officer with the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases said in an interview following the news conference. Allen said Rossmann and or. Robert Gallo of the National cancer Institute were setting up another Experiment aimed at similar three dimensional charting of leukaemia linked viruses. And he said the Sims that apparently causes the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome or aids could eventually be part of that project though Success in growing the necessary aids crystals is very Rossmann said the virus his group mapped known As Hrv-14, is a 20-sided, soccer Ball shaped Structure with a protein Shell surrounding a Core of the genetic material ribonucleic acid. The National science foundation and the National to Sti utes of health helped pay for the experiments which relied on such modern technology As Purdue s supercomputer and the Cornell University High Energy synchro tron source. Laborious grown virus crystals were subjected to x rays at Cornell where the synchrotron collected More than 6 million bits of information which were then Analysed by Purdue s supercomputer. The Purdue computations alone would have taken 10 years without such a computer rom Mann said. In fact he said he d been wanting to conduct rach experiments for More than 20 years but they were simply impossible before development of such advanced Machin Ery. The findings also were being published in the British science journal nature. Scientist says a liner was nearby but did t help titanic passengers Washington a tragedy need t have existed with the 1912 sinking of the titanic because a nearby ship the californian could have rescued the Passen Gers who died a scientist who discovered the Ink in vessel claims. There is no doubt it the californian could have gone in there and rescued those people when the elegant liner struck an iceberg and went Down Robert Ballard told reporters wednesday. Ballard 43, chief scientist of the . French team that found the titanic in 13,000 feet of water about 560 Miles from Newfoundland on sept. I said his evidence shows the California s Captain did t re port his position the californian made no attempt to reach the wreck in which More than 1,500 people perished he said. About 700 people were rescued largely because a third ship the carpathia steamed to the scene when the titanic foundered on its Maiden voyage from Southampton England to new York. Ballard who refused to disclose the titanic s location because scavengers might seek it out said there is no doubt that that tragedy need t have the californian was inside of 10 Miles perhaps As close As four Miles and there is no doubt it could have gone in there and rescued those people. It s just tragic. I d like to say More about that but probably should to Ballard said. What i be said already in t very the role of the californian in the disaster has been debated for years. Passengers aboard the Leyland liner saw the titanic s distress rockets and running lights. There s no Way it could have been that far for them to see that kind of detail in those conditions Ballard said. The scientist said the titanic was found Only after the .-French team concluded that the Captain of the californian Stanley lord had misrepresented his position rela Tive to the doomed vessel because of his vested the behaviour of the carpathia proved of most importance to us in finding the wreck said Ballard. That skipper was a Doggone Good Ballard also disclosed that after mowing the Lawn searching the sea floor time and again with highly advanced technological gear the titanic actually was found by a 25-year-old Echo sounder it could have been done in a fishing Ballard is a scientist at the Woods Hole oceanographic institution funded by the Navy. It co sponsored the search for the titanic with the French Institute for re search and exploration of the sea. Ballard in a 90-minute press briefing at the National geographic society Headquarters reiterated that he believes the titanic should be left at her grave. It s a memorial he said. It belongs where it is and should remain the scientist released photographs of the titanic taken by two unmanned research vessels some showing great detail such As unbroken plates and wine bottles. He said he and fellow researchers were surprised to find the vessel in essentially one piece although most of the Stern was broken off and Only the Middle two of four smokestacks still remain. We could t wipe the grins off our faces for the longest while he said at finding the ship so intact Navy bugs have an appetite Tor handling a dirty cleaning Job by Norman Black Washington a cleaning sewage tanks on Navy ships is not a Job that anybody would relish. That s Why . Wicky Chiera thinks he s finally found the perfect employees. Chiera is a civilian shop superintendent at the Norfolk va., naval shipyard responsible for cleaning and repairing Chat tanks on Navy ships. Chat for collection and holding tank is a Navy euphemism for a sewage tank. Until recently the tanks were cleaned with caustic soda and scrapers wielded by humans protected by special rubber suits respirators and immunizations. Now Chiera begins the process with my bugs a special Breed of microscopic bacteria that when riven the proper mixture of air and water literally eat a Chat tank Down to itt Bare Metal skin in two Days time. Such mixtures of dried bacteria have been sold in grocery stores for years to homeowners with septic tanks. Chiera convinced the Navy that if somebody could develop a More efficient Breed the service could save a lot of time and Money. If it worked on a septic tank then i figured by god it could work on a ship he says. The result was a new Breed of bugs developed for the Navy by a Birmingham n.j., firm Seybron Gamlen under the Trade name Gama yme 700-Fn. Chiera literally waxes poetic about the results the Navy s Happy because Over the past year Chicora s bugs have cleaned 32 clogged tanks at an estimated savings of $600,000. All you have to do is pour them in add a Little water and they do the rest says Chiera. They literally pork out on everything. We already had dried bacteria in the shop store system but nothing could come close to comparing with a Marymac 700 in for appetite. When the other Brand gave up my bugs were waiting for in his first major Experiment with the bacteria Back in 1981, Chiera turned the bugs Loose on the Chat tanks of the air Craft Carrier Eisenhower. They took on the tanks like champs " says Chiera. 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