ABSTRACT

Multi-cellular life forms require many cellular divisions within

colonies to achieve growth and development. According to self-

field theory (SFT) there are biophotonic stages involved in the

overall process termed the cell cycle. While microbiology is largely

based on atomic chemistry, still to embrace biophotonics, this

situation is changing within mainstream academia. Cells occur in

large populations and interact via cell-cell signalling of electric

(E) and magnetic (H) fields. Chromosomes emit biophotons of

specific frequencies within the IR and UV ranges. The divisions

appear to be an SFT process where biogenic E and H fields arise

from diffusion of dipolar proteins within the plasma membranes

of a cell colony. The biogenic mechanisms of cell division include

diffusional processes within metaphase and anaphase. Dipolar

proteins diffuse within cell membranes in response to intra-or

extracellular endogenous or exogenous E and H fields. These

processes involve unconstrained protein diffusion and two feedback

loops, (1) electrical feedback between membrane proteins of a

fertilised cell and those of the colony and (2) magnetic feedback

of biophotons emitted by chromosomes in the fertilised cell in the

colony. Gurwitsch’s observations of cell divisions of the 1920s-

1930s, and α-region dielectrics at ELF frequencies support the SFT

hypothesis. Now, biophotonic research of growth and development

has a field theory to test against the biology.