"Now tell me, why does research have to have a practical application?"
Speaking was a serious-looking young doctor who is studying the "fabric of life"— the connective tissue (bone, cartilage, artery wall, membrane) that supports and binds the body.
When Dr. Gerald S. Berenson asked the above question, he was speaking perhaps for hundreds of persons involved in research across the land—-who spend months, maybe years on problems that may or may not have any practical applications.
Three such researchers in "pure" science are working here on problems dealing with the heart and circulatory system with the support of grants from the American and Louisiana Heart Associations. # # *
THEY ARE: Dr. Berenson, who is an assistant professor of medicine at Louisiana State University school of Medicine; Dr. Marilyn Zirnny, assistant professor of anatomy at LSU, and Dr. John K. Hampton, Jr., associate professor of physiology in the Tu-lane University school of medicine.
If Berenson is studying the chemistry of tissues which are involved in certain types of inflammation such as occur in rheumatic fever.
il Dr. Zimny is studying the ground squirrel's ability to hibernate.
K Dr. Hampton is studying how the body can acquire resistance to shock from injuries.
All of these studies have one thing in common—human heart troubles.
