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IN another context, Dr. Needham himself has likened the biochemist and the embryologist to the gangs drilling a tunnel from each end, and now just about to establish contact with one another. In fact, this contact may be said to have occurred, for knowledge of the chemical structure of protein molecules bids fair to throw light on the structure and properties of fibres (not excluding muscle); and the properties of liquid crystals can now be ascribed to certain living units.
Order and Life
By Joseph Needham. (The Terry Lectures for 1935.) Pp. x + 175. (Cambridge: At the University Press; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1936.) 8s. 6d. net.
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BEER, G. Order and Life. Nature 138, 863 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138863a0
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