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. 1977 Jul;74(7):2844–2847. doi: 10.1073/pnas.74.7.2844

The living state and cancer.

A Szent-Györgyi
PMCID: PMC431314  PMID: 268635

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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