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New facilities. The Argonne Cancer Hospital was 66 percent complete on November 30 and is expected to be completed in April, 1952.
At the San Francisco Hospital of the University of California Medical School, the 70 Mev synchrotron has been installed in the AEC-financed
cancer research facility. When finel testing is complete it will be used
to study and treat cancer in huzan patients and in experimental animals.
Photosynthesis
The chemical transformations involved in photosynthesis#/are being.
investigated by several AEC contractors. The University of California at
Berkeley, by use of radioactive carbon 14 in the carbon dioxide of the
atmosphere in which plants are growing and by very accurate control of the
light, has traced the reactions through a number of stePS- nor ARCHIVES
Evidence to date indicates that all plants go through the same
initial chemical steps and only later make specialized products. Basic
knowledge obtained from this and other studies may eventually permit the
synthesis of plant substances to be greatly accelerated.
It may develop
that specialized products of different elgae, minute one-celled plants,
can some day be produced on a greetly enlerged scale for use as food or
fuel by growing the elgae in nutrient solutions under precisely controlled
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