Text: Form of energy radiating from living tissue. Discovered by Alexander Gurvich, 1927?. For a much earlier and very useful work on mitogenetic radiation, see Otto Rahn, Invisible Radiation of Organisms, Verlag von Gebruder Borntraeger, Berlin, 1936. Rahn points out that dividing cells - and dying cells - emit a primary biological energy in the ultraviolet light range around 2600 angstroms. This mitogenetic radiation can be transmitted through quartz to cause conspicuous stimulation of mitosis in isolated cell colonies. The book includes methods of observing biological radiations special characteristics of the radiation, analysis of the mitogenetic effects, etc. An earlier book on this subject, with a fairly complete bibliography up to 1932, is W. Stempell, Die Unsichtbare Strahlund der Lebewesen, Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1932 [in German]. Note that this German work preceded the Soviet work of Kaznacheyev after WWII, including the EM transmission of cellular effects through quartz windows.

See Also: RADIONICS; ULTRAVIOLET

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