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During the last two years, Dr. Huggins and associates have tested the blood of 300 people, both sick and apparently well. They heated samples of the blood after adding a chemical called iodoacetate. In the blood of healthy people the protein (serum albumin) clotted much more readily than protein in the blood of people who had cancer, tuberculosis, various severe infections, such as kidney diseases. Where tests were positive, other diseases could be readily ruled out, and a search for the location of cancer could continue by more complicated methods. Study of the reasons why the blood protein of cancer...
Department of Public Health units, such as the one operating at Brooks House, use the blood for direct transfusions, plasma, and fractionization. Under the latter process, recently developed at the Harvard Medical School, blood is broken down into albumin, fibrinogen, thrombin, bloud grouping globulin, and antihemophilic globulin...
...stable preparation of serum albumin (TIME, Jan. 31), which is especially useful in shock. It is five times as powerful as plasma in drawing blood fluid back from the tissues into the blood stream. (Leakage of blood fluid into the tissues, with consequent reduction of blood volume and lowered blood pressure, are characteristics of shock...
Seven commercial houses under Navy contract use Dr. Cohn's methods to extract serum albumin and other blood components. Since Dr. Cohn's laboratory does war work, the outside door is locked, the number of white-garbed assistants secret. So is most of the work being done within...
...Serum albumin is extracted from blood plasma by a newly perfected process. The albumin goes six times as far as an equivalent amount of plasma, is now being made for use by para troopers, small naval units, other troops with little room for luggage...