CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION 1
CELL THEORY:
DNA IS THE SECRET OF LIFE
2
RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES:
THE BIOLOGICAL DETECTIVES
10
DNA SYNTHESIS:
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CELLS
15
RNA SYNTHESIS:
HOW TO TRANSLATE ONE LANGUAGE INTO ANOTHER
25
PROTEIN SYNTHESIS:
THE MOLECULES THAT MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
35
CELL CYCLE AND GENE ACTION:
LIFE IS THE SECRET OF DNA
37
ISOTOPES IN RESEARCH:
PROBING THE CANCER PROBLEM
43
CONCLUSIONS 45
SUGGESTED REFERENCES 47

United States Atomic Energy Commission
Division of Technical Information
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-61908
1966; 1967(Rev.)

THE COVER

The cover design portrays the inter-relationships suggested by the title of this booklet: On a trefoil symbolizing radiation are superimposed a dividing cell, a plant, an animal, and a double helix of a molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid, a material unique in and fundamental to all living things.

THE AUTHORS

WALTER E. KISIELESKI is an Associate Scientist in the Division of Biology and Medicine of the Argonne National Laboratory. He was formerly associate professor of chemistry at Loyola University in Chicago. His undergraduate studies were at James Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, and his graduate studies were at the University of Chicago. He received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from James Millikin University in 1962. In 1958 he was a delegate to the Second Atoms for Peace Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. He was visiting lecturer in the department of biochemistry at the University of Oslo in Norway in 1963. Dr. Kisieleski is shown operating an automatic windowless strip counter that scans paper chromatograms and thus locates labeled substances.

RENATO BASERGA was born in Milan, Italy, and received a medical degree from the University of Milan in 1949. He is presently research professor of pathology at the Fels Research Institute at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia, and associate editor of the journal, Cancer Research. Formerly he was associate professor of pathology at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago, where he was the recipient of a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Radioisotopes
AND LIFE PROCESSES

By WALTER E. KISIELESKI
and RENATO BASERGA

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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