Scientist on the Verge of Important Discoveries London, Sept, 11.
Professor F. G, Donnan of University College, London, in an ad-ress to the British Association this evening on the mystery of life, said that his colleague, Professor' Hill, was on the eve of discovering—it he had not already discovered—what ig meant by cellular death, pointing to the fact that the life-machine is ferent {rom ordinary me-ing cell, said Professor Donnan, is apparently kept going by oxygen, and oxidization of the latter's structure-preserving action alone seemed to ward off death.
Professor Donnan declared that for the first time in the history of science we begin to understand, perhaps at present a little dimly, the difference between life and death and the meaning of life itself.
A motorcar, he remarked, if deprived of petrol, stopped, but did not die but a living cell deprived of oxygen and food died immediately, ill, he said, had dis covered that the' organization of a living cell was always tending to break down and required constant ization to keep it charged. Once the supply of oxygen and sugar fe eased it immediately went to pieces, Interviewed by a representative of Reuter's Agency, Professor Donnan expressed the opinion that continu-fous fine analysis of the phenomena of the living cell must lead to such fan understanding of the organiza~ tion of life that there is no reason why the creation in the laboratory: of a living cell of physical plane should not be effected—Reuter,
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