CREATION OF LIFE
REPRESENTATIVE COMMENTS. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, June 10. Sir Oliver Lodge’s bold prediction that life will one day be produced in a chemist’s laboratory .has created some interest in scientific circles. Mr Haldane, a leader in bio-chem-istry at Cambridge University, challenges Sir Oliver Lodge’s views. He says that bio-chemists are gradually building up, out of inorganic materials, some simpler kinds of molecule found in living beings, but these molecules do not contain more than about 100 atoms, whereas the molecules of peotein' characteristic living matter consist of from 5000 to 10,000 atoms, arranged in quite a definite manner. Personally, Mr Haldane says he suspects that we will have to wait, not for one, but for several centuries, before life is created in a laboratory, if it evex’ is created. Professor Julian Huxley has expressed the opinion that the creation of living from non-living mattex- cannot be regarded as impossible. There were many people working on the subject at present, he said.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1927, Page 7
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