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Biophotons — Background, Experimental Results, Theoretical Approach and Applications

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As an outstanding developmental biologist of the third decade of the 20th century, the Russian scientist Alexander Gurwitsch [1, 2] tried to solve one of the most crucial problems of the life sciences, i.e. the “Gestaltbildungs” — problem, which is the question of how living tissues transform and transfer information about the size and shape of different organs. Since chemical reactions do not contain spatial or temporal patterns a priori, Gurwitsch claimed that a “morphogenetic field” is responsible for the regulation of cell growth. In particular, in his so-called “Grundversuch” (“basic experiment”), he found ample indication for the involvement of photons in the stimulation of cell division. Fig. 1 displays this famous “Grundversuch” of A. Gurwitsch.

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Popp, FA. (2003). Biophotons — Background, Experimental Results, Theoretical Approach and Applications. In: Popp, FA., Beloussov, L. (eds) Integrative Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0373-4_12

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