Well the vague explantion I have this.emeraldrafael said:
Two test tubes.
1) DNA (100 Bases, basically DNA exists in four lettered alphabet of ACTG, where each ACTG is an individual monomer which, in the final DNA molecule, has been polymerised to form a (in this case) a 100 base long chain.)
2) Water. Just water.
The test tubes were isolated from the earth's electromagnetic field (I don't know the physic sof this part, sorry) and then left there for awhile. Both test tubes were then subjected to the polymerise chain reaction (PCR). DNA exists as a double helix, two strands of polymers wound together, and the PCR splits these two strand and then replicates them both to form 2 "daughter" strands of the original molecule. Each DNA strand contains the information to form a replica of it's "sister" strand. It's basically used to generate large amounts of DNA, since from the "daughter" strands you can keep repeating PCR and have a exponential growth in the levels of DNA (2, 4 ,8 , 16... 2^n).
Once PCR was subject to both, apparently and this is a big apparently since it hasn't been peer reviewed yet, they were able to generate DNA molecules from the test tube only containing water. The explanation is that DNA has an electronmagnetic signal, which is pretty much a given since it contains electrons. The experiment goes on to suggest that the electrical signal from the electrons can cause the water molecules in a near by tube to line up and take on the shape of DNA long enough that the enzymes in the PCR reaction can mistake if for the DNA itself.
To be honest I'm rather cynical, I mean if it's true it's stupidly cool but
1) PCR is performed at around 72 degress centigrade (I think, or around there defiantly higher then body temperature, and it requires special enzymes from heat resistant bacteria)which would give the water molecules large amounts of energy and, especially if they are no longer near the DNA sample, any imprinting (if there is any) could be over come by the high temperatures.
2)How the infomation would be stored in water for a large amount of time is hard to understand since water molecules make and break hydrogen molecules with them selves all the time. And this random shuffling of H-bonds (an hydrogen in one molecules attracted to the oxygen in another) is the lowest energy state of water. And the electromagnetic field from the DNA would have to over come this.
Sorry if you've already had this answered but I thought I'd give it a go.
I doubt it, since the person involved "Luc Montagier" was part of the group of people that established that HIV caused AIDs. So I feel the Nobel Prize is still pretty valid, and who knows they could be write. Just need a few repeat experiments a and a peer review.Dana22 said:
