¶ Even in tiny doses, hormones are enormously powerful. And in the minutest quantities, radioactive elements can be "watched" as they travel through the body. To combine these two virtues in a single substance, the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases is sponsoring a project to manufacture about one gram (1/30 of an oz.) of radioactive cortisone. The Institute will put up $66,000 for Montreal's Charles E. Frosst & Co. to do the tricky manufacturing job of building cortisone with an atom of radioactive carbon-14 in Ring A of the molecule. As many as a hundred research outfits may...
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