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Radial of ici i Warfare the University of Chicago t o use the facilities of its Toxfcitp Labor a to q for making st-ldies of the biological and medical aspects o f radiologfcd. tarfare. Plans are being made t o deliver zircaniua and ~oluinl~i?unf is sion products t o the Labomtory for these studies, The Division of Biology end Iledicine has made arrangements with work is concerned. Study of the 1948 s-zrvey material from BikLni and 3niwetok w5s begun at the Universitp of %sbingtorr and at the University of California, Los A we les. %e Xlmogordo resurvey for 19N3 vas coq let ed RB far as field A3L rqorts an interesting observation of the relation between dose rste a d e,"fccts of rzdiation Upon chickens. a dose rate of 5 roentgens per minute (up to a total dose of 1,200 r) resulted i n death of the animls only after several &ys. rrte i s ir.creased threefold, t o 15 rlmin (sane total dose), the ar,iml.e die on t>t, first m d second days following emomre, This stud^, one of tke f e w thus far on folfls, rqresents a aegnent of a broad research effort t o learn the relation of dose and time. It wa8 found that AE en aly tic ? J procedure h a been developed at AI% which will de te mim the presence o f proactinium i n urine. may be of significmce i n the periodic monitor iy,of workera i n Pdvi son Com.1t tee The Adviaow Cornittee for Biology and Medicine, meting in Washington Septenber 11, 1948, reconmended the agr oval of Reserve) and 1'Establisbent o f Radioisotopic Vnit for Instruction, awazcled during September, raising t.0 a to tel of 74 the fellowships granted thug far i n biology and medicine. Comcil has made the first awards ir, health Thysics t o 20 technical fellows for one year's trzining, beginning Sovenber 1, at Ommd the University o f Rochester. Constructicn started on the six - story training building at the Wni - rersity of Rochester. Septenber 1, 1949, is the scheduled corn let inn date.