Energy And Information Transfer In Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding - Proceedings Of The International Workshop

How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding

Mae-wan Ho, Francesco Musumeci, Larissa Brizhik

• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9789812384195
  9789812384195
• eBook ISBN:
  9789812705181
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Spectroscopy & Spectrum Analysis

This volume contains papers based on the workshop "Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding", held in Italy in 2002. The meeting was a forum aimed at evaluating the potential and outlooks of a modern physics approach to understanding and describing biological processes, especially regarding the transition from the microscopic chemical scenario to the macroscopic functional configurations of living matter. In this frame some leading researchers presented and discussed several basic topics, such as the photon interaction with biological systems also from the viewpoint of photon information processes and of possible applications; the influence of electromagnetic fields on the self-organization of biosystems including the nonlinear mechanism for energy transfer and storage; and the influence of the structure of water on the properties of biological matter.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Soliton Mechanism of Charge, Energy and Information Transfer in Biosystems L. Brizhik
• Delayed Luminescence and Motional Harmonicity L. Cordone, G. Privitera, S. Tudisco and F. Musumeci
• 62 AMEV Proton Beam for the Treatment of Ocular Melanoma at L.N.S. - INFN G. Cuttone, P. A. Lojacono, I. V. Patti, M. G. Sabini, L. M. Valastro, G. A. P. Cirrone, S. Lo Nigro, L. Raffaele and V. Salamone
• Search for Quantum and Classical Modes of Information Processing in Microtubules: Implications for “the Living State” S. Hameroff and J. Tuszynski
• From ‘Molecular Machines’ to Coherent Organisms M.-W. HO
• New Hierarchic Theory of Water and Its Role in Biosystems. The Quantum PSI Problem A. Kaivarainen
• How the Absorption of Monochromatic Visible-to-near IR Radiation by Cells Leads to Their Biological Responses? T. I. Karu
• Modern Technology on Physical Analysis of Biophoton Emission and Its Potential Extracting the Physiology Information M. Kobayashi
• Complex Systems: Analysis and Models of Real-World Networks V. Latora, P. Crucitti, M. Marchiori and A. Rapisarda
• On the Physics of Ultraweak Bioluminescence and Intercellular Photon Signaling V. S. Letokhov and A. L. Doblyakov
• From Inanimate Molecules to Living Cells: The Informational Scaffolding of Life P. C. Marijuan
• Nonlinearity in Biological Systems: How Can Physics Help? A. A. Marino and C. Frilot
• Delayed Luminescence and Cell’s Structure Organization A. Scordino, A. Triglia and F. Musumeci
• Life as a Fourth Level of Quantum Organization of Nature S. P. Sit’ko
• A New Advanced Research Equipment for Fast Ultraweak Luminescence Analysis - Aretusa S. Tudisco, F. Musumeci, A. Scordino and G. Privitera
• Concept of Photon Storage Capacity in Cell Biology R. Van Wijk
• Conclusive Remarks
• Subject Index
• Author Index