Energy and information transfer in biological systems : how physics could enrich biological understanding : proceedings of the international workshop, Acireale, Catania, Italy, 18-22 September, 2002 / edited by Francesco Musumeci, Larissa S. Brizhik, Mae-Wan Ho.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Musumeci, Francesco, 1949-

Brizhik, Larissa S.

Ho, Mae-Wan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biophysics--Congresses.

Biophysics.

Physics--Congresses.

Physics.

Biology--Congresses.

Biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Other Title:

How physics could enrich biological understanding

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 biolog

Contents:

Foreword; Contents; Soliton Mechanism of Charge, Energy and Information Transfer in Biosystems L. Brizhik; 1 Introduction; 2 General description of Davydov model; 3 Soliton dynamics; 3.1 Effect of lattice discreteness; 3.2 Solitons in constant magnetic fild; 3.3 Soliton dynamics in external EMF; 4 Electrosoliton stimulated radiation; 4.1 Long-range interaction between solitons; 5 Soliton input into the delayed luminescence of biosystems; 6 Biological consequences of solitons; References; Delayed Luminescence and Motional Harmonicity L. Cordone, G. Privitera, S. Tudisco and F. Musumeci

1. Introduction2. Material and Methods; 2.1. Materials; 2.2. Measurement of Delayed Luminescence; 2.3. Preparation of Collagen samples; 2.4. Dehydration of samples in H2O; 2.5. Treatment with trehalose; 3. Results; 4. Conclusion; References; 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; 1. Introduction; 2. The proton beam line; 3. Dosimetric characterization of the proton beam; 4. Conclusion; References

Search for Quantum and Classical Modes of Information Processing in Microtubules: Implications for "the Living State" S. Hameroff and J. Tuszynski1. Introduction: Cytoplasm, microtubules and information processing; 2. Protein conformational dynamics; 3. Models of information processing in microtubules; 4. Simulations of tubulin and microtubule properties; 4.1. General properties excluding the C termini; 4.2. Tubulin surface charge characteristics including C termini; 4.3. Coulombic forces between adjacent tubulins; 4.4. Tubulin dipole moments

4.5. Tubulin internal charge characteristics: a double well potential4.6. Tryptophan mapping; 5. Quantum information processing; 6. Implications for quantum information processing in microtubules; 6.1. "Carboxy termini" antennae; 6.2. Quantum double well; 6.3. Spintronics and magnetic dipoles; 6.4. Conformational coupling and quantum superposition; 6.5. Exciton hopping; 6.6. Quantum entanglement; 6.7. Super-radiance and self-induced transparency; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; From 'Molecular Machines' to Coherent Organisms M.-W. HO; 1. Introduction

2. Maxwell's Demon and 'molecular energy machines'3. Space-time structure of living processes and the second law; 4. The second law restated; 5. Quantum molecular machines; 5.1. The organism as an energy storage domain; 5.2. Energy storage and mobilisation is symmetrical; References; New Hierarchic Theory of Water and Its Role in Biosystems. The Quantum PSI Problem A. Kaivarainen; 1 New Hierarchic Theory of Condensed Matter and its Computerized Verification on Examples of Water & Ice; 1.1 Basic notions and definitions of Hierarchic theory of matter

1.2 Total Internal Energy of Condensed Matter

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611908676

9781281908674

1281908673

9789812705181

981270518X