PRODUCTION OF LIFE
IS, IT POSSIBLE TO SCIENCE? P.UOFKSSOKS DISAGREE. (Eloc Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian End N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 10. Sir Oliver Lodge's bold prediction that life will one day be produced in the chemists' laboratory has created interest in scientific circles. Professor Haldane, leader in bio-chem-istrv at Cambridge, challenges Sir Oliver .Lodge's views. " He says big chemists are gradually building up out of inorganic materials some simplier kinds of molecule found in living beings, but they do not contain more than about 100 atoms, whereas the molecules of protein in characteristic living matter consist of 5000 to 10,000 atoms arranged in quite a. definite manner. Personally, he suspects we will have to wait not one hut several centuries before life is created in the laboratory, if it ever is. Professor Julian Huxley expresses the opinion that the creation of living from non-living matter cannot be regarded as impossible. There are many people working on the subject at tho present time.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16364, 11 June 1927, Page 16
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