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...Federal court recently killed a goose that had laid a huge golden egg for the University of Wisconsin. The Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco outlawed patents (for enriching food with vitamin D) which in 15 years had netted the University's research outfit $7,500,000. But Wisconsin still had this golden egg last week-in the form of investments-as well as ideas that may lead to a new era in university research...
Wisconsin's big money-maker is a skinny, self-effacing biochemist named Harry Steenbock. Some 18 years ago he discovered that food could be enriched with vitamin D (especially useful in preventing rickets in children) by being treated with ultraviolet rays...
Home drying of food costs almost a third less than canning. According to University of Tennessee's Chemist G. A. Shuey, properly dried foods keep most of their food elements and a good part of the vitamins, except vitamin...
...broker named Gordon L. Harwell. A born pot-watcher, Harwell used to sit up late nights with a pressure cooker and a potful of paddy (rice in the husk) trying to cook up an improvement on conventional milling methods. In orthodox rice milling, machines first remove the husk (containing vitamin Bi), then the germ and several coats of bran (rich in fat, minerals and vitamin B complex), finally give forth a polished white kernel which has lost most of the vitamins and minerals in the original rough grain. (The husks are burned; the bran fed to animals...
Dark, shy Dr. Voegtlin has headed the Institute (in Bethesda, Md.) since 1938. Since he joined the Public Health Service in 1913 he has headed research which compared the acidity and oxygen consumption of cancerous and normal cells, calculated the amount of vitamin C in tumors, discovered chemicals which produce cancer, studied the effect of radio waves on cancer...