Abstract
THIS collection of stimulating scientific publications shows how diverse biochemical techniques, recently discovered in various parts of the world, can be used to supplement one another in the elucidation of particular problems in the attack on disease. Thus in the chemical and microchemical sections the mano-metric respirometer methods of Warburg and of the Cambridge school together with the Linderstrom-Lang microtechniques are used to study metabolic and enzymic activities of tissues. The cyclotron is used for the production of radioactive elements which can afterwards be introduced into compounds of biochemical interest, for example, glutathione containing radioactive sulphur. In the physico-chemical and immunological departments, purification and analysis of therapeutic serum antibodies are carried out by the Svedberg ultracentrifuge, and the electro-phoretic technique of Tiselius is applied to studies on antibodies from allergic sera.
Reports of the Biochemical Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute
Vol. 5, 1938–1939. Pp. vii + 42 papers. (Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1940.)
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Reports of the Biochemical Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute. Nature 145, 811 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145811c0
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