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...limited degree, animals have the power, hitherto believed unique in plants, of making starch and sugar foods out of carbon dioxide and water. This startling news was announced last week in Chicago by Harvard Biochemist Albert Baird Hastings, Birgit Vennesland and co-workers at a meeting of the American Societies for Experimental Biology...
...mildly radioactive substances as food. These can be traced through the body by detection of the rays which they give off. (In the past, scientists have lost track of food after it left the alimentary canal.) The Harvard biochemists fed radioactive baking soda to rats, found that the carbon dioxide in it was being used in the liver to build carbohydrates...
...Warner experiments are borne out, the detoxicant mixture may be of great help in industrial poisonings, for it works effectively on lead, benzol (a solvent) and carbon tetrachloride (used in the cleaning industry). For human consumption, the detoxicants are made up in small white pills, which taste like strong, sour orange juice. Physicians are trying them on patients at several large medical schools, for alcoholism, toxemias of pregnancy, arthritis...
...either the radium or cyclotron bombardment of the diamonds, Dr. Berman explained, a short lived radioactive form of carbon is produced, together perhaps with some gas, like helium. The theory is that such gas molecules could become tightly lodged in the microscopic crevices of the diamond structure, and could impart the green color through a scattering of light rays...
Fungi (with the algae which do have chlorophyll) are the earth's oldest and most primitive plants, lacking root, stems and leaves. Fungi also lack the power of green plants to make food out of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and must therefore live off organic matter. So there are two types of fungi: 1) parasites, which feed on living plants and animals; 2) saprophytes, which feed on dead organisms. Pleasant are some fungi, such as the mushrooms (commercially grown on horse manure) which decorate steaks. Valuable are others, like the bacteria which decompose dead organisms, fix nitrogen...