In the darkened laboratory, a faint red light glowed from behind the dials on the grey instrument.
A man in a white coat adjusted the dials and then leaned back so the students clustered around him could see the image on a small screen.
The man was Dr. Jack C. Geer, instructor in pathology at the Louisiana State university school of medicine. The students were part of a group of 82 top science students selected from 18 high schools that took part in Heart Research day Tuesday at the LSU school of medicine.
The instrument was an electron microscope being used to study tissues for medical research program.
Heart Research Pay, sponsored by the Louisiana Heart Association, the Tulane university school of medicine, and LSU medical school, was designed to interest students in careers in jmedical research and to show them what is being done in that field.
At a meeting in the LSU medical school auditorium, Dr. Edgar Hull, associate dean of LSU
medical school, said that in research ''there is a great deal to be done and a great need for people to do it.
He added that medical research provided material gains, recognition and the satisfaction
of helping others.
Five doctors from Tulane and LSU medical school explained projects before taking the students through the laboratories to see the work in progress.
Dr. Floyd R. Skelton, assoc-
iate professor of pathology, LSU, said that doctors were trying desperately to work themselves out of a job" by working to find the cause and preventative for heart and blood vessel diseases. PHOTO:EXAMINING TISSUE from arteries are three students from high schools which participated in Heart Research Day Tuesday at Louisiana State university medical school. From left are Leon Cafoes, De La Salle; Cynthia Neuman, Benjamin Franklin; Claybourne Wai-drop, Francis T. Nicholls; Dr. Edgar Hull, associate dean, LSU school of medicine, and Dr. Jack P. Strong, associate professor of pathology.
