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Low Temperature Biophysics and Room Temperature Biology

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Protein Structure

Part of the book series: Proceedings in Life Sciences ((LIFE SCIENCES))

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I was challenged by the organizers to open this session with a provocative address. This paper is a reduction to written English of that talk, rather than a conventional review of work in progress. I may step on a few toes — my own, unfortunately, included — but this is the cost of being frank.

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Hopfield, J.J. (1987). Low Temperature Biophysics and Room Temperature Biology. In: Austin, R., et al. Protein Structure. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4796-8_11

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