At the Rockefeller Institute, she studied the effect of radium bromide on cancerous tumors in rats.
After a year there, she returned to Canada and graduated from the University of Toronto with a medical degree in 1911.
She began working in medical research soon after.
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After a year there, she returned to Canada and graduated from the University of Toronto with a medical degree in 1911.
She began working in medical research soon after.
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The equation shows that the rate of reaction rate in enzymes increases to saturation as the substrate concentration increases.
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I'm glad you've posted this thread.
She did find work as a clinical pathologist in Pittsburgh.
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Textbooks have described the use of the principle as a stroke of genius.
Through her career she also focused on treating cancer in children.
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She retired from the University of Pittsburgh in 1950.
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She retired for good in 1955.
Menten passed away in Leamington, Ontario in 1960.
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In 1998, she was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. A bronze plaque, erected in 2015, honours her in Port Lambton.
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