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The aquatic nanofoundation of human life and health

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The notion of water is not a static notion but a dynamic one.

Logical thought has not grasped it either accurately or fully thus far.

V.I. Vernadsky

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With the development of computer information technologies, humankind has begun to study actively the nanoworld of water as the evolutionary foundation of the “living matter” of the planet (V.I. Vernadsky). Water and water solutions are a continuously reproduced, inexhaustible, and essential natural condition of existence. It is hydrogen bonds that ensure the formation of DNA double helixes as the evolutionarily fixed method of biological information transfer, which largely determines the rate and inherited parameters of the development of the living organism. The author of this article is of the opinion that water as the primary nanostructure of the existence of nature is the foundation of human life and health. Special attention is paid to the contribution of scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences to the above topic.

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Original Russian Text © I.L. Andreev, 2017, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2017, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 145–153.

Igor’ Leonidovich Andreev, Dr. Sci. (Philos.), is Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute of Philosophy.

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Andreev, I.L. The aquatic nanofoundation of human life and health. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 87, 75–82 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331617010063

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