Research Notes

Two important results of wartime research were announced last week: P: SN 7618 is an antimalaria drug described by OSRD as "five or six times better" than atabrine. It relieves acute attacks faster and may be taken weekly, instead of daily. Unlike atabrine, it does not stain the skin or cause nausea. It costs no more to produce.

P: Carbon-13, a rare-as-radium substance that can now be produced in quantities, may shed new light on the mysteries of human metabolism. It may also provide clues to the cause & cure of cancer, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, other metabolic diseases. It is like ordinary carbon but has a greater atomic weight. Absorbed into the system, C13 can be easily identified by its added weight, and precisely traced--with an electrical instrument--through the entire process of metabolism. Doctors may thus learn how food and drugs behave when they meet disease germs, or cancer, inside the body.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.