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WE have received the third volume (1934-35) of “Reports of the Biochemical Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute”. In a foreword, the director, Dr. Ellice McDonald, points out that this issue marks the withdrawal of the Cancer Research Laboratories of the Graduate School of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania and their inception as the Biochemical Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute. The ostensible reason for this withdrawal is the refusal of the University to allow patenting of medical or biochemical discoveries for the continued furtherance of research activities, though not for personal profit. The Institute has decided that the past research done on the cancer problem should be made an avenue of approach to the more general area of other diseases. The objects of the new Foundation are the study of the processes of disease from a chemical point of view, the study of new organic chemical compounds for their therapeutic value and the study of longevity and the diseases of age, with the hope of prolonging the span of life. The present volume contains reprints of some thirty papers published by the staff of the Institute and the Cancer Research Laboratories and their colleagues, dealing in general with various aspects of both normal and abnormal tissue metabolism.
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Biochemical Research at the Franklin Institute. Nature 138, 23 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138023b0
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