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IN a recent communication1, Jackson and Randall have shown, using electron microscopy and electron diffraction, that at a very early stage in the development of bone, apatite crystals are deposited in what appears to be a definite relationship to the collagen fibres. They did not, however, find any evidence of preferred orientation of the crystals. The samples examined by Jackson and Randall were of embryonic avian bone, and the absence of preferred orientation in such young bones is in accord with results we have obtained with X-ray diffraction.
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Jackson, S. F., and Randall, J. T., Nature, 178, 798 (1956).
Clark, S. M., and Iball, J., “Progress in Biophysics” (in the press).
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CLARK, S., IBALL, J. Structure of Bone in Relation to Growth. Nature 179, 94–95 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179094b0
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