TY - JOUR

T1 - Human development IV

T2 - The living cell has information-directed self-organization

AU - Ventegodt, Søren

AU - Hermansen, Tyge Dahl

AU - Flensborg-Madsen, Trine

AU - Nielsen, Maj Lyck

AU - Clausen, Birgitte

AU - Merrick, Joav

PY - 2006/9/7

Y1 - 2006/9/7

N2 - In this paper, restricted to describing the ontogenesis of the cell, we discuss the processing of DNA through RNA to proteins and argue that this process is not able to transfer the information necessary to organize the proteins in the cell, but only to transfer the information necessary to form the shape of the proteins. We shortly describe the structure of the information-carrying field recruited by the cells that we think is responsible for building the organelles and other cellular structures. We use the cells superior control of its cytoskeleton as an example of how the cell is using an informational field to give the positional information that guides all the local chemical processes behind the cell movement. We describe the information-directed selforganization in cells and argue that this can explain the ontogenesis of the cell. We also suggest the existence of an undiscovered phenomenon behind the informationtransmitting cell interactions. We conclude that during evolution, the cell developed into an information-guided self-organizing structure. The mystery we want to solve is: What is the mechanical cause and nature of biological information?

AB - In this paper, restricted to describing the ontogenesis of the cell, we discuss the processing of DNA through RNA to proteins and argue that this process is not able to transfer the information necessary to organize the proteins in the cell, but only to transfer the information necessary to form the shape of the proteins. We shortly describe the structure of the information-carrying field recruited by the cells that we think is responsible for building the organelles and other cellular structures. We use the cells superior control of its cytoskeleton as an example of how the cell is using an informational field to give the positional information that guides all the local chemical processes behind the cell movement. We describe the information-directed selforganization in cells and argue that this can explain the ontogenesis of the cell. We also suggest the existence of an undiscovered phenomenon behind the informationtransmitting cell interactions. We conclude that during evolution, the cell developed into an information-guided self-organizing structure. The mystery we want to solve is: What is the mechanical cause and nature of biological information?

KW - Clinical holistic medicine

KW - Denmark

KW - Developmental biology

KW - Holistic biology

KW - Morphogenesis

KW - Ontogenesis

KW - Theoretical biology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33748976896&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1100/tsw.2006.177

DO - 10.1100/tsw.2006.177

M3 - Review

C2 - 16964370

AN - SCOPUS:33748976896

VL - 6

SP - 1132

EP - 1138

JO - The Scientific World Journal

JF - The Scientific World Journal

SN - 2356-6140

ER -