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THLY STATUS AND PROGRESS REPORTS Authcfized for Public Release 0 ~ i ~ mrize dfor Public Rdease
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The following research projects have been approved by the Division of Biology and Medicine and the various Operztions Offices have been asked t o negotiate the contracts: New York Operations Office: on Thermal Effects of the Atomic Bomb" - $87,250 "Further Studies on the Metabollam of the Teeth with Effects of External Radiation (X-rays and Ganrma Rays) - "Efficiency of Present Water Treatment Methods in Removing Chicago Operations Office: . Sterilization of Blood and Plasma with Nitrogen Mustards - on t h e Use of Zirconium aa a Radioopaque Media" - $6,050 Badioactive Indicators in t h e Study of the Mode of Action
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of Radioactive Substances on Plant Pathogens and Other Santa Fe Operations Office: ship of Plsvanoid Structures t o Radiation Protectionfl - Acids, Nucleoprotein and Nucleotides and Related Organic Microchemical and Biophysical Study of Tumors and Effects of Radiation Upon Cells - $36,000 Hanford Operations Office: Oak Ridge Operations Office: Eembrzne Permeability of the Liver C e l l Nucleus, and Shell Formation in Mollusks and Barnacles as Stu did by RadioWDistribution and Turnover of Sodium and Potassium in Acute Actions on t h e Formation of Tissue PhosphoUpidesn (Dr..C; and Fluid Balance i n Health and Disease (Harris) - $8,245; (d) 11Study of t h e Absorption of Phosphorus by Pine Mollusksand Barnacles as Studied by Radioisotopes; 2. The Isolation and Membrane Permeability of.the Liver Cell
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Effects on Salamander m e " - $5,547 Atdc Energy Commission: Hanford Operations Office : of Radioactive Isotopes i n Germ Cells and Reproductive Ori daal pant $18,842; Total - $32,842 2 . "Postdoctoral Training in Bad C Sciences; Application of Radioactive Tracer Technique i n the F'ield of Cellular Original grant $32,465; Total - 866,135 Santa Fe Operations Office: I Backteriophage and Mi ation Mechanisms" - $39,000; Absorption Spectra of Nucleic Acids, Amino Acids and Oak Ridge Operations Office: Metabolism of Some Sulfur Oxides" - $13,000; Original grant "The Nutrition of Tapewonne, The Physiological Action of Relaxin i n the Mammalian Reproductionll - 819,700; original The fol hn hg projects were Studied by the Division personnel and they were decllned as subjects that are now beetudied at other institutions or deemed.to be outside of the research program as sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission. I
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Trace ESeinents in t h e Study of MetaboUsm of M. "Study of t h e Long Term Radiation Effects of Internalof Hemin and Other Uetalloporphyrins in Normal.and NeoEffect of Anti-,@lenic Tissue Serum in Radiation Damage" tion Xork on the Parasitic Wisp, HabrobraconIt .Wonitoring Mi ation with Living Plants and Microorganisms Nutrition of Unicellular Organisms and t h e Requiranmt ofVa5eties of Uutanta Induced by Radiationtt , 9 Stu6y of the Mode of Action of Antibacterial Agents" and Antibiotic Betatron of Canpounds Fonning Com9lexes with Hetals and Effect of Trace Elements on Bacterial XetaboliSmttt ional Edema and Anemia as Influenced by Cholinett of t h e i r time on the semiannual report which is primarily-focused on t h e Division of Biology and Medicine. The staff of t h e Division have Spent a considerable portion.
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held i n Washington and at the field offices in order thata ceo site picture may be depicted of the broad programs that a r e being carried forward i n biology and medicine and health A report has ,been mx de to the Director of' the Division of Biology and Medicine by Harry L, Bman on problems at the Hanford PPorks and at the sources frm which it receives per. Several points cc weakness were located; recomelidations were tion, provision of standby facilities, and protection of the village of Richland. o r one resulting froln breaking Grand Coulee Dam were investigated, A full report will be made in the very near future tothe Applied Biophysics Branch material dorage, changes i n type of building construc- ' The danger resulting from a natural flood On Bay 18th t h e Division of Biology and Medicine, through the Biophysics Branch,-joi.ntly sponsored a series of orientation lectures f o r some 300 executives of the casualty insurance t o atomic energy, isotopes distributibn program, permissible limits of exposure t o ionizing radiation and t h e handling of radioisotopes in the laboratories, were designed t o give the layman a picture of the problems involved in t h e handling of radioisotopes. It is felt that through a series of lectures such as this the insurance executives will be better able t o evaluate the insurance ' problems created by atomic energy pro3ecta. The meeting was held i n New Pork City at t h e Commodore The series of four lectures, which covered introduction The following persons have been nmned'on an ad hoc committee for planning biologic aspects of future tests : I - D r . Jacob Furth, Pathologist, Veterans Administration Hospital;. Dallas, Texas Colonel James P. Cooney, Chief, Radiological Branch, A3C Captain R. H. Draeger, Radiobiologist, Naval Medical
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The Committee w i l l have the responsibility of setting up the protocol for observations in the field of biology and Use of Radioisotopes and Radiation on Damestic Animals Reports indicate that the program at the University of Temessee t o study t h e effects and use of radioisotopes and of radiation on dcanestLc animals i s progresshg satisfactorily. The major work i s with cattle .%batwere exposed t o the dust lloutfall" of the bomb at Alamagordo. genetics, pathology and retention, if any, in the tissues of radiozictive materials. All of the cattle brought from the - Alamagordo area have gained in weight and normal offspring have