Show I SCIENCE ATTACKS A IT ACKS I PROBLEM OF LIFE Biologist Jacques Loeb Believes Be BC Its Germ Can be Discovered AUTOMATIC ITIC REPRODUCTION j i Seeking Process Which Causes Development of Egg Into Embryo n Berkeley Cal Oct 1 l. Professor or Jacques Loeb the famous biologist of th the University Il of California in a 3 bulletin 1 Issued today from rota the office of or the tite president makes the statement that he lie believes c the germ of or life can be ho discovered provided ed th the chemical reaction reaction- surrounding th the process 9 of or fertilization are Investigated hn The announcement of Professor Prof s or ol Loch Loeb has been heln received with great Interest h by 1 bythe th tile the el university lt men nf af science as a a. distinct dis ls linet step In tho the dl discovery coV Ir of or the tile production production pro pro- luction of or living matter maLter 1 from frAm m the in in- in animate The ThC university savant avant mak makes the point that all nil that living JI matt matter flatter front from th the machines which h he in the tile laboratory tory of the mm un cr l Is the power po of or the animate objects of developing and reproducing thi J automatically All that is t therefore nc Sary ho hr declares clar Is II for forthe till the scientist to discover 11 tho tile chemical process roces which causes the thc development of oC f the thc e egg g Into the embryo o Prore Professor sor Loeb oel makes males the following Collo statement In I his bulletin The flip Great it Problem I There mn may bo hi a n difference of opInIon opinion ion as to whether or not it will wIlI ever eor bo 10 possible to 0 produce living matter mailer from C. Inanimate but hut I think we nil all allagree agree e that wo we cannot well veli hope to tc succeed in making living matter artificially arti aiti tidally unless w we have a U clear conception conception concep concep- tion Lion of what living hing matter Is Ie q Living organisms m have th peculiarity of oC de developing de- de e- e and aInd reproducing reproducing- themselves he automatically and It Is Jl this automatic character r of f reproduction and meat ment m nt which differentiates df hUes them tot for tho the time being from machines matte made of ot Inanimate matter Hence the tile answer tn to the lie question of what lug living matter I Is will sill have C to b be an nn an answer to the question of what determines the phenomena phe phe- nomona of oC automatic development ent and 1 reproduction Since all alt life liCe phenomena phnom ona ena me Ule ultimately purely pUTI chemical t th till f answer mu must t eon con consist Ihl In Jo pointing out nut on one oner or 0 of from frol which It win an be Je 7 that tile tho they nr n nom nii 4 4 I v r p nd f p. p Tj Ul I l l' l tIT os W t ii l r- r vit v i ot v VIM 1 Wa va i- i lie tho af r s of or pit plo process OP which causes s the he development of the egg f namely nameh the he process p of or fertilization Without 1 ox oxygen n. e-n. h he 1 says the eggs egga cannot annot develop eop On this point ho hI heays says ays as a's Life in hi I The Cile fertilized f eggs S cannot l develop Ir r Increase the number l' l of its Us I unless tnie Ie an ample of free oxy oxygen en enI l I Is s present As soon oon as aM ox oxygen en is ad admitted ad- ad to the egg which has been ben deprived de de- ic- ic priced ed of or it it the tho synthesis nth ls of and C segmentation begin again Tho Iho summing up of tho the bulletin shows lIOnS that Prore Professor Pi-olessor ol Loch Loeb Is II working worlIng alon along the tile lines suggested in his latest writing lIe He says MJ that he has not as asyet asyet yet t had time to continue the experiments meats ments to dl discover the germ Jerm of life although he lIe thinks ho lie Is Ig In the rl right ht path paUL In Intile tile the th do closing ln pages of the pamphlet he says as a's I 1 have hae not yet had time to apply lh the results to the lie g eggs ggs of man many other forms Corm but I believe from Irma w what hat I have e j seen een e n that we re are now In possession of at least some om of or the tile general methods methods meth meth- and principles of or artificial genesis It seems that In general Se the treatment of or tile the l' l eggs i with or 01 certain acl acids s sometimes with sometimes without luent treatment treatment treat treat- tonic water cau causes cause es eshe ment moat with h sea ea the he development 1 of un unfertilized e eggs s. s J |