February 4th 2011<\/p>\n
French virologist Prof Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel prize in 2008 for his role in discovering HIV, has announced that he will soon be moving to the prestigious Jiaotong University in Shanghai to open a new research institute, dedicated to investigating further his recent findings on the electromagnetic properties of dilute DNA fragments. In an interview forScience<\/i>\u00a0magazine on 24 December 2010 [1], he discussed his work and the reasons for such a move at the age of 78, which include the \u201cfear around this topic\u201d in Europe.<\/p>\n
His findings suggest that under the right conditions electromagnetic signals can be transmitted from test tubes containing the diluted DNA sample, to a test tube containing only water, and that when enzymes which copy DNA molecules are then added to this water they behave as if DNA molecules are present, producing new DNA molecules. This \u2018teleportation\u2019 effect of the DNA, coupled with the high dilutions of the initial sample have attracted much controversy.<\/p>\n
Aspects which relate directly to homeopathy are the fact that serial dilution and agitation of the DNA sample is necessary for the electromagnetic signals to be generated (the same method used to manufacture homeopathic medicines) and that these signals are detected at dilutions as high as 10\u00a0-18<\/sup>\u00a0when molecules of DNA would no longer be present. Although Montagnier has not been able to demonstrate effects at the higher levels of dilution used in many homeopathic medicines, his work in an important step in demonstrating biological effects of ultra-molecular samples.<\/p>\n When asked, \u201cDo you think there\u2019s something to homeopathy…?\u201d he replied, \u201cI can\u2019t say that homeopathy is right in everything. What I can say now is that the high dilutions are right. High dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water structures which mimic the original molecules.\u201d As this is the most controversial aspect of homeopathy, this comment by such an eminent scientist will be of interest to both sceptics and supporters of homeopathy alike.<\/p>\n A recent editorial in\u00a0New Scientist<\/i>\u00a0entitled \u2018Why we have to teleport disbelief\u2019 quotes the sceptical reactions of several scientists to Montagnier\u2019s work, but this is to be expected with such potentially ground-breaking work.<\/p>\n Reference<\/span><\/p>\n NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: LUC MONTAGNIER French Nobelist Escapes „Intellectual Terror“ to Pursue Radical Ideas in China. Martin Enserink Science 24 December 2010: 1732. [DOI:10.1126\/science.330.6012.1732]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 4th 2011 French virologist Prof Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel prize in 2008 for his role in discovering HIV, has announced that he will soon be moving to the prestigious Jiaotong University in Shanghai to open a new research institute, dedicated to investigating further his recent findings on the electromagnetic properties of dilute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[120,119,101,118,66],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dna","tag-hiv","tag-montagnier","tag-nobel","tag-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hri-research.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}