A. D. McCartt, T. Ognibene, G. Bench, K. Turteltaub Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Purpose The prevalence of carbon in living organisms makes carbon-14 an ideal isotopic tracer for biological studies. In the past decades, carbon-14 has been used in studies of pharmacology, nutrition, carcinogenesis, toxicology, and fundamental biology. For micro-tracer studies, where small, physiologica...