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...City. It has another distinction: most of its 450 beagles are radioactive. Their job under an Atomic Energy Commission contract is to determine the "burden" of radioactivity that a beagle (or human) body can carry for a lifetime without damage. The dogs are injected with graduated amounts of plutonium, radium, radiothorium or mesothorium. These elements accumulate in the bones and bombard tender cells with damaging alpha particles...
...piece of cobalt pipe is not impressive looking. It is only 13 in. long and 2 in. in diameter, but it is more radio active than the world's entire stock of refined radium. The pipe will be the star in a new kind of chemical laboratory that Standard Oil Development Co. is building at Linden, N.J. The lab. the first of its kind and scale in private industry (cost: $1,000,000), will use atomic radiation to promote chemical reactions. In preparation for the plant's completion, the cobalt pipe has been absorbing neutrons for 24-years...
...chemical weapon against cancer has always been looked upon as ideal-such weapons as X ray or radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April...
Martin, somewhat confused by the radium dial of Jerry's watch, diagnoses radiation poisoning...
...done her best to protect it from injury - or from the surgeon. Several ways of getting at it have been devised, but none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora R.'s forehead. With the frontal lobe of the brain pushed aside, he worked past a barrier of optic nerves to cut the stalk by which the pituitary hangs from the hypothalamus...