DNA teleportation

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

DNA teleportation is a pseudoscientific claim which suggests that DNA can produce electromagnetic signals (EMS) that are measurable when highly diluted in water. The claim suggests these signals can allegedly be recorded, transmitted electronically and re-emitted on another distant pure water sample, where the DNA can replicate through polymerase chain reaction, despite the absence of the original DNA in the new water sample.[1] The idea was introduced by the Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier in 2009.[2] It is similar in principle to water memory, a similar pseudoscientific claim popularised by Jacques Benveniste in 1988.[3]

No independent research has been conducted to support the claim and to this day, there is no known or plausible scientific mechanism by which it might work.[4]

Electromagnetic signals from DNA

Bacterial DNA

In 2009, Montagnier and his collaborators published a paper titled "Electromagnetic signals are produced by aqueous nanostructures derived from bacterial DNA sequences" in which they reported that bacterial DNA can produce an electromagnetic signal (EMS) that is transferred through the cell culture medium.[2] In a medium of T lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell), they cultured bacterial DNA from Mycoplasma pirum and Escherichia coli. After filtering to remove all the bacteria, polymerase chain reaction was performed, which demonstrated the absence of remaining DNA. The solution was then incubated for two or three weeks, after which the presence of bacterial DNA was again detected. After serial dilution, they tested for electromagnetic radiation using a Fourier analysis technique developed by Jacques Benveniste and his team in 1996.[5] They detected electromagnetic frequencies only at high dilutions, ranging from 10−5 to 10−12.[2]

Viral DNA

In the same year, the team reported similar EMS from the DNA of HIV under high dilution of the culture medium.

antiretroviral therapy (ART), and untreated individuals) showed detectable EMS from ART-treated patients with undetectable viral loads at plasma dilution levels between 10−4 and 10−8.[6]

In 2015, Montagnier's team published another finding similar to the original one, but using

viral DNA. Here they claim that the electromagnetic waves could be explained in terms of an unspecified quantum effect.[8][non-primary source needed
]

The DNA transduction experiment

The experiment was first made in July 2005, and was repeated and filmed for a TV documentary in 2013, released on the French channel France 5 on 5 July 2014.[9] The online journal Ouvertures detailed the test protocol through interviews with Montagnier.[10]

Montagnier's experiment can be summarised as follows:

  1. A known water sample with 2 ng/ml of 104 bases DNA from an HIV infected patient is diluted by 10 into water and agitated for 15 seconds. After filtration to remove the DNA, the dilution and agitation steps are repeated 10 times, reaching high dilution levels of 10−10.
  2. The highly diluted sample emits electromagnetic signals (EMS) of low frequencies.
  3. This EMS is recorded by a microphone coil and saved as a 6-second WAV file at the lab in Paris.
  4. The WAV file is emailed to a partner team at the university of Benevento in Italy.
  5. The Italian team emits with a coil for 1 hour the EMS of the WAV file on a sample of distilled water in a sealed metal tube.
  6. The water sample is then placed in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine.
  7. The PCR machine in Italy produces DNA, 98% identical to the initial DNA in Paris.

Interpretation

It is proposed by Montagnier[11] that some molecules interact through electromagnetic waves instead of direct contact.[failed verification] These waves could be trapped into coherence domains formed by water molecules vacuum spheres at quantum scales. These structures would keep the signal in the absence of the original molecule. During the PCR step of the experiment, this remaining signal could have contained the necessary information for the initial DNA to be reconstructed.[failed verification]

The principle is similar to Benveniste's experiment from 1997

Digital Biology
Laboratory in Clamart, France. After emitting the signal on pure water for 20 minutes, the water could cause an allergic shock on an isolated Guinea-pig heart allergic to ovalbumine. In both experiments the EMS reproduces the properties of the original molecules in their absence.

Responses and criticisms

The 2009 publications were immediately followed by scientific comments and criticisms of the credibility of the purported phenomenon, as well as the authenticity of the research. According to chemist Jeff Reimers of the

University of Sydney, Australia
, "If the results are correct, these would be the most significant experiments performed in the past 90 years, demanding re-evaluation of the whole conceptual framework of modern chemistry."

The credibility of the peer-review system of the journal

IgNobel Prize in 1998.[15]
)

Philip Ball wrote an analysis about Montagnier's work in Chemistry World, stating "It looks like one of the most astonishing discoveries in a century, yet it was almost entirely ignored." He claims this experiment was never replicated and that the work was "ignored for good reason, namely that it’s utterly implausible".[16]

On 28 June 2010, Montagnier spoke at the

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany,[17] "where 60 Nobel prize winners had gathered, along with 700 other scientists, to discuss the latest breakthroughs in medicine, chemistry and physics."[18] He "presented a new method for detecting viral infections that bore close parallels to the basic tenets of homeopathy. Although fellow Nobel prize winners – who view homeopathy as quackery – were left openly shaking their heads, Montagnier's comments were rapidly embraced by homeopaths eager for greater credibility. Cristal Sumner, of the British Homeopathic Association, said Montagnier's work gave homeopathy 'a true scientific ethos'."[18]

Montagnier was also questioned about his beliefs on homeopathy, to which he replied: "I can’t say that homeopathy is right in everything. What I can say now is that the high dilutions are right. High dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water structures which mimic the original molecules. We find that with DNA, we cannot work at the extremely high dilutions used in homeopathy; we cannot go further than a 10−18 dilution, or we lose the signal. But even at 10−18, you can calculate that there is not a single molecule of DNA left. And yet we detect a signal."[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Coghlan, Andy (21 January 2011). "Scorn over claim of teleported DNA". New Scientist. Reed Business Information Ltd. Archived from the original on 13 April 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  2. ^
    S2CID 7158953
    .
  3. S2CID 12992106
    .
  4. Techworld. Archived from the original
    on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  5. ^ Benveniste, J.; Jurgens, P.; Aïssa, J. (1996). "Digital recording/transmission of the cholinergic signal". FASEB Journal. 10: A1479.
  6. ^
    S2CID 29991828
    .
  7. Nobel Media AB. 2008. Archived
    from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  8. S2CID 14826417
    .
  9. ^ Manil, Christian (5 July 2014). "On a retrouvé la mémoire de l'eau" [We have found water memory]. France Télévisions. Doc en Stock, and France Télévisions. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  10. ^ Lombard, Eric (8 September 2014). "Le Pr. Luc Montagnier a-t-il retrouvé la mémoire de l'eau ?" [Did Professor Luc Montagnier find water memory?]. Ouvertures (in French). Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  11. S2CID 1810576
    .
  12. ^
    doi:10.1016/S0091-6749(97)81064-0
    .
  13. ISSN 1867-1462. Archived from the original
    on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2019. THE EDITORIAL BOARD - CHAIRMAN: Luc Montagnier, World Foundation AIDS Research and Prevention, France
  14. ^ Myers, P. Z. (24 January 2011). "It almost makes me disbelieve that HIV causes AIDS!". Pharyngula. ScienceBlogs LLC. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  15. PMID 9783571
    .
  16. ^ Ball, Philip (10 July 2013). "DNA waves don't wash". Chemistry World. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  17. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. 28 June 2010. Archived from the original
    on 17 December 2010.
  18. ^ a b Leake, Jonathan (4 July 2010). "Nobel laureate gives hope of credibility to homeopaths". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
    "Nobel laureate gives homeopathy a boost". The Australian. 5 July 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2019 – via The Sunday Times.
  19. PMID 21205644
    .
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DNA_teleportation&oldid=1191705920"