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THE structure of proteins is the major unsolved problem on the boundary of chemistry and biology to-day. We have not yet found the key to the problem, but in recent years a mass of new evidence and new lines of attack have enabled us to see it in a far more concrete and precise form, and to have some hope that we are near to solving it.
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BERNAL, J. Structure of Proteins*. Nature 143, 663–667 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143663a0
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