The living state and cancer.

Albert Szent‐Györgyi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1977 · 166 citations · 9 references

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Abstract

Complex living structures developed on our globe after the appearance of light and oxygen. In functions of these structures, solid state phenomena play a major role. The structural proteins were made into radicals by doping, the covalent incorporation of electron acceptors. This lent mobility to their electrons and a subtle reactivity to their molecules. Cancer is unable to go into the radical state.

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