Do cells "speak" to each other?
Messages from living matter
Danilo Anton
Electromagnetic
waves
From
its origins and through several billion years of evolution, life used
all the material and energy available as well as relevant resources
to optimize their survival.
This
includes all sources of useful and accessible substances and
energetic phenomena of various kinds. One of the most important lifel
energy manifestations are electromagnetic waves.
Solar
radiation is primarily expressed by electromagnetic waves of light
(with a wavelength varying between 3500 and 7000 angstroms).
Living
organisms tend to primarily use light as a form of communication with
the environment. In
sunlit areas of the planet, organisms have developed characteristics
related to the reflection of light (colors), while the dark areas
(i.e. In the bottom of the ocean or in the night) have generated
light emission systems (eg luminescence of noctilucae, jellyfish and
fireflies ).
Light
waves are not the only forms of energy used by living matter. We
know that there are many others but most probably some have not been
identified yet.
The
mysterious DNA functions
Only
3% of DNA contains genetic information capable of being used for RNA
or for cellular functions. The remaining 97% consists of
sections that are cyclic and repeated (they are called "introns").
These do not appear to store information . No one knows for sure
what is the reason for this apparent waste of resources.
Several
possibilities have been suggested. A hypothetical function,
advanced by some authors may be to give strength and stability to the
molecular structure.
A second
possibility, suggested by Narby in his book "The Cosmic
Serpent", is that they have a transmitter-receiver function of
electro-magnetic waves.
Another
possible function is that these segments of DNA are "Program to
install programs" signaling pathways for the future evolution of
each species.
Finally,
it is possible that these "introns" do not meet any default
function but they are unused genetic information of extraplanetary
origin built at different times of the geological and astronomical
history of the planet as Brig Klyce holds and other proponents of the
theory of " Cosmic ancestors. "
The water bags of life
The
simplest (eg, bacteria) and cellular components of complex organisms
living organisms are composed of three main elements contained in a
small "water pocket" in which the vital functions are
developed.
The
first is a very long molecule (a billion times longer than wide) that
contains all the instructions for the formation, function and
reproduction of the organism.
These
instructions are written in a language of 4 letters that scientists,
for your convenience, have called A, G, C and T .
This
molecule consists of two homologous and complementary halves in the
shape of a double helix. The second element is a messenger molecule
(RNA) that is able to read the messages and create from them a huge
variety of organic molecules, usually known as proteins.
This
is the vital third element of the chain. They have a basic
architecture encoded by specific sequences of tens to hundreds of
smaller components called "aminoacids".
There
are 20 main amino acids which can build millions of different
proteins adapted to the various vital functions of organisms.
Each
protein may be formed from 200 of these components and its
specificity is determined by the spatial arrangement of the twenty
constituent components.
In
short, the functioning and reproduction of the simplest organisms and
cells of higher organisms are driven by a complex of instructions
contained in a molecule with a double helix (DNA), queson be fetched
and carried by a messenger molecule (RNA) for further translation to
a "protein" code of 20 letters (aminoacids).
All
these components and activities occur in an aqueous microenvironment
which is maintained within certain physical conditions and
composition.
For
that purpose, the microorganism or cell carries out regular exchanges
of matter or energy with the surrounding environment.,
These
semi-aquatic systems with self-controlled conditions are called
"life."
Messages
from plants
What
information transmit plants through chemical and/or electromagnetic
signals?
In
general, the reigning scientific paradigm is reluctant to accept the
remote communication capabilities of plants.
However,
there are numerous longstanding experiences built in traditional
cultures showing that this communication indeed happens.
It is
possible that the visions produced by psychoactive plants are no more
than interspecific messages generated in the depth of the molecular
structure of DNA in plant cells and the reactions to them of our own
cells. Probably the "hallucinations" are the cerebral
translation of complex codes used by plants to communicate with their
environment.
This
possibility should not be taken lightly.
For
hundreds of millions of years plants have evolved to survive better
in this world.
This
implies competing, but also and above all coordinating.
A tree
needs to know that the flower of this vine can help attracting the
appropriate insects. It has learned this through a long and
cumbersome process of natural selection. The trees that combat
these beneficial vines will not be able to reproduce.
How can
this information reach the tree immediately? May be is throuogh the
modulation of invisible electromagnetic waves emanating from
DNA-containing plant tissue.
It is
unwise to underestimate the ability of life to take advantage of all
the resources at its disposal. We should start listening
carefully to the signals we get from forests and grasslands. Besides
the colors, melodies and odours, there are many more messages, a true
symphony of waves emerging from all ecosystems on earth.
The
secrets of nature are not hiding. They are there, proclaimed to
the four winds for the millions of creatures that inhabit it.
In order
to understand them we just need to pay attention.
