Contemporary Materials I−2 (2010)
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LIQUID CRYSTALLINE WATER, QUANTUM MOLECULAR MACHINES & THE LIVING STATE
Mae-Wan Ho*
Institute of Science in Society, 29 Tytherton Road, London N19 4PZ, UK
Abstract:
It has been 18 years since the discovery in my laboratory suggesting that living organisms are dynamic liquid crystalline phases in which all the molecules in the cells and tissues of the body are aligned and moving coherently together, including especially the water molecules that are intrinsic to the liquid crystalline matrix and essential to the function of macromolecules. In effect, the organism depends on a macroscopic quantum coherence of individual molecular energy machines.
Recent investigations using a range of sophisticated spectroscopic techniques have indeed revealed that the liquid crystalline (hydration) water forms dynamically coherent units with proteins and nucleic acids, and enables the macromolecules to function coherently together.
The same investigations also reveal that ions play their pivotal role in cellular metabolism and signalling through interactions with hydration water. Despite these major advances, the ultimate mystery of life remains tantalizingly beyond our grasp.
Keywords: liquid crystalline organism, quantum coherence, molecular energy machines, hydration water, two-states water, kosmotrope and chaotrope, Law of matching water affinities, microdomains.
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