Abstract Purpose: To review the responses of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to electromagnetic fields (EMF) in different frequency ranges, and characterise the properties of DNA as an antenna.
Materials and methods: We examined published reports of increased stress protein levels and DNA strand breaks due to EMF interactions, both of which are indicative of DNA damage. We also considered antenna properties such as electronic conduction within DNA and its compact structure in the nucleus.
Results: EMF interactions with DNA are similar over a range of non-ionising frequencies, i.e., extremely low frequency (ELF) and radio frequency (RF) ranges. There are similar effects in the ionising range, but the reactions are more complex.
Conclusions: The wide frequency range of interaction with EMF is the functional characteristic of a fractal antenna, and DNA appears to possess the two structural characteristics of fractal antennas, electronic conduction and self symmetry. These properties contribute to greater reactivity of DNA with EMF in the environment, and the DNA damage could account for increases in cancer epidemiology, as well as variations in the rate of chemical evolution in early geologic history.
Kenneth R. Foster: Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104USA Correspondence kfoster@seas.upenn.edu
Foster doubts the suggestions of Blank and Goodman such as "(...) here referring to powerline frequencies of 50 or 60 Hz) and microwave fields (about 1 GHz), many of which are controversial in their interpretation". (Page 2) He simply declares them as "controversial" without making any reference to any source as proof. We don't know who claims the suggestions of Blank and Goodman as controversial. In that way the word "controversial" is working as a psychological keyword. It is the same mechanism used in common media to marginalize persons when they are declared as "controversial".
At least this experiment with ants and an i-phone is certainly not "controversial":
As the claim that the DNA is responsible to the behavior of the ants around the i-phone is claimed of being "controversial" what else could be the cause of this strange behavior of the ants? Could it be magnetite? Ants have magnetites in their body. Well, and the important bees: "Honey bees are sensitive to earth strength magnetic fields and are reported to contain magnetite (Fe3O4) in their abdomens. We report bands of cells around each abdominal segment that contain numerous electron-opaque, iron-containing granules. The iron is principally in the form of hydrous iron oxides." http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/phy_fac/156/
But probably for Kenneth R. Foster magnetites are also "controversial" as cause for such a behavior. And he calls that "Science".
It's not that far away to suspect that nano particles on blood cells could fulfil a similiar function of magnetites depending on the material of those nano particles. (look to the picture below)
