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IT is customary to draw the boundary between living organic and inorganic matter so that crystals represent the highest form of inorganic material and low organisms form the beginning of the organic world, with a definite and deep physiological gap between the two categories. In my opinion, this gap does not exist, since the sperms, which are undoubtedly living, are at the same time liquid crystals.
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RINNE, F. Sperms as Living Liquid Crystals. Nature 126, 279 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126279b0
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