Mitogenetic Radiation

Bateman, J. B.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-185x.1935.tb00476.x

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“…As we tried to show in an evidence-based way, there are no serious works disproving MGE. The “common opinion” that MGE is “pathological science” (Hall, 1989 ; “Pathological Science” 2 ) is a personal belief of a few influential scientists from the past (Bateman, 1935 ; Anonim, 1937 ; Hollaender and Claus, 1937 ), without any factual data, or with its very doubtful interpretation.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A methodically irreproachable work on onion root was later published by Paul ( 1933 ), which considered all criticism, and excluded any artifacts. The work gave doubtless positive results, but was strangely ignored in later critical reviews (Bateman, 1935 ). In our opinion, this work gave the final significant answer to the problem of MGE in plants [See (Rahn, 1934b , 1936 ) vs. (Hollaender and Schoeffel, 1931 ; Hollaender, 1936 ) for more details].…”

Section: Mitogenetic Effect “Biological Detection”mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The effect was repeated in Acs ( 1932 ), Frank ( 1932 ), Tuthill and Rahn ( 1933 ), and was not in Richards and Taylor ( 1932 ), Hollaender and Claus ( 1937 ). The total literature on MGE on these objects includes no less than 500 publications [See (Gurwitsch, 1932 , 1968 ; Rahn, 1936 ; Gurwitsch and Gurwitsch, 1948 ) vs. (Bateman, 1935 ; Hollaender and Claus, 1935 ; Hollaender, 1936 ) for reviews and discussion].…”

Section: Mitogenetic Effect “Biological Detection”mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[See (Bateman, 1935 ; Hollaender and Claus, 1935 ) vs. (Barth, 1934 ; Rahn, 1936 ; Audubert, 1939 ; Gurwitsch and Gurwitsch, 1948 ) for more discussion].…”

Section: Detection With Physical Devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[Mark that the notion of membrane receptors became widely used only several decades later. See original works (Gurwitsch, 1911 , 1923 ), and their discussion in Bateman ( 1935 ); Gurwitsch ( 1988 ); Van Wijk ( 2014 ).…”

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Revisiting the mitogenetic effect of ultra-weak photon emission

Volodyaev

Beloussov

2015

Front. Physiol.

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This paper reviews the 90 years long controversial history of the so-called “mitogenetic radiation,” the first case of non-chemical distant interactions, reported by Gurwitsch (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 it has any biological role), and (2) are there any real effects of this ultraweak photon emission (UPE) upon cell division and/or other biological functions? Analysis of the available data permits to conclude, that UV fraction of UPE should be regarded real, while its biological effects 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. Importance of this area for basic biology and medicine, and potential usefulness of UPE as a non-invasive research method, invite scientists 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.

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Section: Mitogenetic Effect “Biological Detection”mentioning

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Section: Mitogenetic Effect “Biological Detection”mentioning

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“…[See (Bateman, 1935 ; Hollaender and Claus, 1935 ) vs. (Barth, 1934 ; Rahn, 1936 ; Audubert, 1939 ; Gurwitsch and Gurwitsch, 1948 ) for more discussion].…”

Section: Detection With Physical Devicesmentioning

confidence: 99%