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ReviewComputational and structural biotechnology journal2024

Open quantum systems theory of ultraweak ultraviolet photon emissions: Revisiting Gurwitsch's onion experiment as a prototype for quantum biology.

Nathan S Babcock

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Review in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Quantum biology: From mechanisms to medicine.Clinical and translational medicine · 2026
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Nathan S BabcockQuantum Biology Laboratory, Howard University, 2400 6th St. NW, Washington, D.C., 20059, United States of America.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A century ago it was discovered that metabolic processes in living cells emit a spectrum of very low intensity radiation. This was based on observations that radiant energy from proliferating cells can amplify the rate of cell division in other nearby cellular life. Although metabolic radiation is now thoroughly documented in research on ultraweak photon emissions (UPE), the original finding that UPE can enhance mitogenesis remains controversial. This controversy is addressed by establishing a physical basis for phenomenological observations that biological UPE can amplify mitogenesis in living cells. Enhanced mitosis is rationalized as a resonance effect based on open quantum systems theory using Fano and Feshbach's methods. This application of quantum theory to biology has important consequences for understanding health, medicine, and principles of living matter.

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PMID39717158
PMCPMC11664013

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