Revisiting the mitogenetic effect of ultra-weak photon emissionстатья
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Аннотация:This paper reviews the ninety years long controversial history of the so-called “mitogenetic radiation”, the first case of non-chemical distant interactions, reported by A.Gurwitsch in 1923. It was soon described as ultraweak UV, emitted by a number of biological systems, and stimulating mitosis in “competent” (in this sense) cells. In the following 20 years this phenomenon attracted enormous interest of the scientific community, and gave rise to more than 700 publications around the world. Yet, this wave of research vanished after several ostensibly disproving works in late 1930-s, and was not resumed later, regardless of quite serious grounds for that.
The authors discuss separately two aspects of the problem: (1) do living organisms emit ultraweak radiation in the UV range (irrespective of whether the latter has any biological effects), and (2) are there any real effects of this ultraweak photon emission (UPE) upon cell division and/or other biological functions?
The analysis of the data available permits to conclude, that the first question should be answered positively, while the biological effects claimed beforehand, are difficult to reproduce. This causes a paradox. A number of presently known qualities of UPE were initially discovered (predicted?) by the “early workers” on the basis of biological effects. Yet the qualities they discovered were proved later (the UV component of UPE, the sources of UPE among biological systems, etc.), while the biological effect they used for UPE “detection”, remains questionable.
The importance of this area for basic biology and medicine, and the usefulness of UPE as a non-invasive method of investigation, invite researchers to attack this problem again, applying powerful research facilities of modern science. Yet, because of complexity and uncertainty of the problem, further progress in this area demands comprehensive examination of both positive and negative works, with particular attention to their methodical details.