European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Researchers have noted differences to studying children. For example girls Between the Ages of 3 and $ talk to each other More while boys make play noises. In a task that is not specialized to either hemisphere such As looking at chairs Heller found that Young girls show More Lell hemisphere involvement than boys. Alter accidents in which their left brain hemispheres certain men lost their language abilities other researchers found. Men with right brain injuries lost spatial abilities women with the same kinds of injuries showed much less severe losses. 11 has also been talk that boys score higher on math tests than do girls. Bolh groups Start Oul scoring at similar Levels by girls drop off As Junior High school approaches acculturation has been proposed As an explanation bul Hilelson pointed Oul Hal the the kind of math children Are exposed to is computation More of a left brain Lask this is not the same As geometry a More spatially oriented kind of math Junior High schooners study the research to Date olfers odder for some interesting generalisations but scientists were Quick to Portl Oul the studies describe men and women on the average nol As individuals in any of the groups there arc exceptions to conclusions derived from the studies the scientists said. Sex does not necessarily determine ability they said and 2cause one sex group seems to be better on the average at a certain task does no make tha sex Superior to the other the idea hat Anatomy is destiny is a foolish idea. Nothing with humans is destiny. We Are organisms Hal can be influenced can be Flavoured can be directed but not pre programmed said Reinisch English doctors discovered the beneficial effects of digitalis two centuries ago when they noticed that patients Wuh a spelling caused by congestive heart disease perked up when they drank Lea viewed from inc Plant bul today scientists say most of the land based plants and animals tha Harbor beneficial chemicals Ali easy have been identified some of today s drugs have dangerous Side cheats or. With the Nus of drug resistant microbes have declined in effectiveness the sea is largely untapped As a source of safer More effective drugs says or David at away of the Marine pharmaceutical research old co of the National oceanographic and atmospheric administration there is an enormous Les Ervo of unusual substances in the seas " corals sponges and slow moving denizens of the deep somehow have Learned to survive in a harsh highly competitive environment. In All. Marine scientists Schmale that up to 200.000 geniuses tour times the number of land based organisms live in Inq sea each Genus May contain hundreds of diverse species capable of producing toxins hormones and pheromones Hal help Ihm survive. So far. 15.000 Marine Plant and animal extracts have been examined Lor their car urn potential Kaul says thousands of others Are availing analysis out there Aren t enough people to do the work scientists believe Marine a a races May be an especially Rich source of new cancer drugs their optimism is prompted Iri Parl. By he fad tha Lumores Ivsich occur commonly in fish and Rno hunks Are virtually absent irom Sharks Marine sponges and Lum Cales it is possible that these organisms manufacture substances Hal inhibit Luxor says or Michael Boyd of the National cancer Institute a substance isolated live years ago from a tunicate known As Tondi Denum Cyan Thorum. Which grows As Small greyish palches on rocks and Coral is now being tested on humans As a treatment for leukaemia the substance. Diem no b. Helps extend the lives of mice with leukaemia and Melanoma twofold when compared to conventional drugs one anti tumor drug from the sea already has become a Standard realm enl for Melanoma Lymphoma leukaemia and other cancers the drug Arac was derived from a sponge that grows in he Caribbean sea another subs acc isolated Iron a hawaiian soil Coral May be the basis of new cancer drugs in the future the substance pal dioxin. Was discovered by Hawaii researchers who noted that natives on the Island of Maui tipped Ihetu arrows with a Poison from the Coral despite ils toxicity. Scientists believe that pal toxin May provide a number of potent cancer drugs because of its Affinity for certain types of tumor cells. Or George Ruggen. A researcher at of Tatrn Laboratory of Marine sciences of the new Vork aquarium says Marine sponges in the Virgin islands which daily ingest Gallons of sea Naler Laden wih deadly microbes survive by Matulac tuning their own antibiotics Reggien says the discovery raises the possibility that a Host of new anti microbial substances will be derived irom the sea tuesday sap Lemberg 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 17
