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...thyroid gland). For these, it is as good as other drugs or surgery, and probably better. Until radioisotopes began to be made (in cyclotrons) in the '303, doctors were able to use only "external radiation"-X rays from an assortment of machines-or the closely related gamma rays given off by radium as it decays to lead. But the thyroid picks up any isotope of iodine in a greater concentration than any other part of the body by a factor of 100 or more t01. So radioactive iodine (known as iodine-131 from its atomic weight)*was the answer...
Buck Rogers and his space ships may soon be no laughing matter. At the meeting last night of the Harvard chapter of Gamma Alpha, national scientific fraternity, two professors agreed that from the physiological and technical standpoints, travel in interplanetary space is a probability perhaps realizable within the next thirty years...
This work resulted in the production of serium albumin, gamma globulin, fibrin products for brain surgery, and other parts of the coagulation mechanism for chemical and clinical study...
...white cells pass through and are carefully collected in a second centrifuge. Meanwhile the plasma--the liquid medium in which the cells are suspended--flows into a mixing vessel where zinc salts are added to precipitate the gamma globulins of the blood and certain other plasma proteins...
...Gamma globulins, the immunity-bearing proteins of the blood, have come into general use for protection against measles. The possibilities both of the effectiveness of these globulins against other diseases and of their further separation to yield specific antibodies pose a challenge to chemist and oltnician alike...