UNRAVELLING SECRETS OF LIFE
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Received Sunday, "7.0 p.m. "WASHINGTON, Jime '28. Major-General Kirk, comnLeiiting on plans for making laige amoimts of radioactive isofypes. available to medieal research workers, said by-products of the_ atomic bomb will begin where X-rays and mieroseopes leave off in solving secrets of life. MajorGeneral Kirk said snch elemeqts as calcinm phosphorons, snlphiir and iron can be tagged with small amoimts of isotypes and tb.en followed tlirough the body by means of beta and ganima radiation and thereby medieal scientists hope to learn more about how calcium phosphorons is used in the building of teeth, and nniting of fractures, how* iodine is used by tlie thyroid gland, and also learn exactly what happens when giands begin malfunctioning, and how the process of woimd li ealing is carried out. Major-General Kirk said there were hundreds of equally important questions now classed as secrets of life waiting radioactive isotypes for clarification.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1946, Page 8
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