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WORK in this laboratory on differences in mechanism between normal and malignant cells has shown the great need for improved methods of analysis and characterization of nucleic acids. Investigations which I began before the War indicated to me the value of the polarograph as an analytical tool in the study of inorganic cell constituents, and there was reason to believe that it had great possibilities in the organic field. Excellent accounts of general polarographic methods are now available1,2.
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HEATH, J. Polarographic Behaviour of Adenine. Nature 158, 23 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158023a0
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