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Radio Waves Found to Affect Cell Behaviour
The discovery that radio waves can influence the behaviour of cells has been reported by a team of scientists. This article appeared in The New York Times on March 30, 1959

Radio Waves Found to Affect Cell Behaviour



(This article which appeared in The New York Times on March 30,

1959 is the first intimation, apart from the claims of various

radionic operators, that radio waves can affect cellular

behaviour. The information comes somewhat as a shock to all

physicists judging by the remarks of the physicists and

biologists visiting Dr. Heller's laboratory who say "I'll be

damned".



We would remind our readers that the method of critically

tuning a radio frequency to produce a resonant effect with a

specific cell group in the human body is a routine performance

with the more advanced radionic operators..........The Editor



Organisms line up in reply to High Pulsed Range



The discovery that radio waves can influence the behaviour of cells

has been reported by a team of scientists.



It is believed that the discovery may have far-reaching effects in

medicine and in the understanding of basic life processes, as well

as in industry.



The findings, published in two technical journals, have to do with

the behaviour of many living and non-living substances in fields of

radio energy.



The scientists are Dr. John H. Heller, Dr. A.A. Teixeira-Pinto and

Dr. John L. Cutler of the New England Institute for Medical Research

in Ridgefield, Conn. They have found that a variety of substances -

including carbon, silver, starch, polystyrene particles, red blood

cells and several types of living microscopic organisms - can be

oriented by pulsed radio frequencies.



Perhaps the most significant factor in this work so far is the

discovery that the new technique apparently permits the scientists

to affect structures inside living cells. The use of the pulsed

radio frequency of about twenty-seven megacycles on cells in the

growing root tip of a garlic plant, for example, created some

abnormal cells and killed others by interference with the heredity-

carrying elements.



At present the scientists cannot explain the phenomenon. The

possibility that particles under an impressed radio frequency tend

to line up SO THERE IS MINIMAL DISTORTION of the field as close as

they can come to guessing how it works, but this leaves many

questions unanswered.



The scientists, however, are able to reproduce the effect

predictably.



For example, randomly swimming groups of tiny, cigar-shaped

organisms known as Euglena can be made to swim together in an east-

west direction, ALONG THE LINES OF FORCE in the impressed radio-

frequency field.



They all move in straight lines as though obeying the lanes in a

swimming meet. This analogy is extended by the little "flip turns"

the Euglena make when they reach the end of a "lane" and swim back

along their original paths.



Even more astonishing things happen when the radio frequency is

increased a certain amount. The little organisms SUDDENLY FLIP

NINETY DEGREES and all start swimming in a north-south direction.



Dr. Heller said that this ability to "play these things like a

piano" has so fascinated his team that lights have been burning in

the laboratory practically every evening and week-end since the work

began last November.



"Visiting physicists and biologists usually don't believe it until

they see it work," he said. "Then the first thing they say is 'I'll

be damned!'"



Dr. Heller and Dr. Cutler demonstrated the effect on several other

things, including staphylococcus germs, amoebae and polystyrene

particles (tiny synthetic particles of uniform size). All except

the staphylococci behaved as predicted, lining up east-west under

one radio frequency and north-south under another.



Dr. Heller explained that each substance seemed to have a FAVOURED

FREQUENCY for lining up with OR against the field. Euglena, for

example, line up east-west at six megacycles and north-south at

about fifteen megacycles. Staphylococcus north-south frequency,

presuming it has one, appears to be one out of the range of the

institute's present equipment, according to Dr. Heller.



Radio signals in the medium frequency range are being used roughly

between five megacycles and forty megacycles. The scientists are at

work on equipment that will take them into radar range, or somewhat

above 100 megacycles.



The present equipment consists of a radio frequency source that

permits pulsation of the signal at various rates and powers.

Pulsing is necessary because a constantly applied signal would fry

any living material.



Wire leads from the power source end in electrodes of silver paint

on the underside of the microscope slide that is covered with still

another microscope slide on which the material to be examined is

placed. In this way the experimental material is insulated from the

electrodes by two thicknesses of glass and thus exposed only to the

radio field and not directly to any current carrier.



Preliminary results from work with this equipment are carried in

NATURE, a British scientific publication, and the RES BULLETIN, the

American journal.



The New England team got into this work by being dissatisfied with

explanations offered for the reported development of cataracts and

germ-cell damage in persons WHO WORKED IN RADAR, a radio frequency

considerably higher than that being used in the Ridgefield

laboratory.



Some investigators suggested that the alleged damage was caused by

the heating of tissue in the radar beams. Dr. Heller did not like

this theory and set out to explore other possibilities.



Alteration of genetic material induced in plant test



"Four reports of the peculiar behaviour of fat globules in radio-

frequency fields had been made since 1927," he said, "and we decided

to see if we could get similar reactions from other things."



He added that a number of other substances that lined up AND STRUNG

TOGETHER UNDER PULSED RADIO FREQUENCIES were soon found. One of

their experiments stands out as an important turning point.



Working with a microscopic animal known as paramecium they noted

that a tiny particle within the cell of a trapped organism FLIPPED

BACK AND FORTH according to the impressed field. This meant, Dr.

Heller explained, that it was possible TO REACH INSIDE CELLS AND

AFFECT MANY INTERNAL STRUCTURES.



That new possibility led to an experiment in which cells in the

growing tip of a garlic plant were exposed to the field for five

minutes and then examined twenty-four hours later.



The scientists reported finding several changes in the cells'

chromosomes, the heredity-controlling structures. VIRTUALLY ALL

the classical aberations known to be caused by ionizing radiation

and certain poisons were noted, Dr. Heller explained. This finding

suggests that radio frequencies appear to constitute a powerful new

tool for studying the growth and genetic development of organisms.



Work along this line has already resulted in the creation of both

LETHAL MUTATIONS and VIABLE NEW STRAINS of vinegar flies and certain

bacteria, the scientists said. They speculated that this research

might find application in cancer treatment if it turned out that

radio frequencies COULD BE USED TO SCRAMBLE CHROMOSOMES in malignant

cells, thereby preventing their further growth.



In addition, because each substance seems to have a PREFERRED RADIO

FREQUENCY to respond to, MIXTURES OF DIFFERENT ONES might be

separated with the new technique.



In support of this possibility Dr. Heller cited experiments that

showed how foreign substances could be made to flow over aligned

polystyrene particles and how two different strains of penicillin

spores WERE DIFFERENTIATED by the radio-frequency fields.



Dr. Heller also remarked that interest in his experiments had been

expressed by the oil industry. Behind this interest, he explained,

is the thought THAT IF PARTICLES CAN BE ALIGNED before they are

chemically strung together into fibres, EXTREMELY STRONG STRANDS of

the material probably can be created.

Effects of Radio Waves gets Wider Laboratory Study



(This second article in The New York Times of April 6 describes

Mr. John Osmundsen's interview with Dr. A. J. Ginsberg after

reporting the previous week on parallel work by Dr. John

Heller. The importance of this work may be judged by the large

number of University research programmes that are being

diverted in the United States to the effect of radio wave

frequencies on health, although for years scientists have

denied that such effects are possible. It is to be hoped that

the work and research at the DelaWarr Laboratories will now

receive more serious attention.....The Editor)



Research into the harmful effects and the possibly beneficial uses

of high-frequency radio waves on living things is reported to be

expanding rapidly in laboratories in the United States and Canada.



Investigations sponsored by the armed services are going on in at

least ten American Universities and research institutes. The

research is aimed at providing knowledge that will make it possible

to live safely with the increasingly powerful radar and other micro-

wave generators being developed.



Although existing devices are said to be completely safe if properly

handled the most powerful are believed to be potentially capable of

causing SERIOUS DAMAGE AT A DISTANCE OF SEVERAL MILES. It is

assumed, also, that the implications this has for weapons

development are being investigated.



Parallel studies into the possible beneficial effects of much lower-

powered pulses radio waves have been begun or are expected to begin

soon in fifteen or twenty other laboratories.



This work has been instigated largely by Dr. A. J. Ginsber, a New

York physician. He has reported the successful treatment of

hundreds of cases of acute and chronic infections with these radio

waves.



Dr. Ginsberg admits that he does not know how the apparent cures

with his so-called DiaPulse machine were brought about. But he has

a theory about the ways in which pulsed high-frequency radio waves

interact with living tissues. This theory has interested several

prominent investigators sufficiently to prompt them to begin

research into the matter, many with their own funds.



Dr. Herman P. Schwan, Director of the Electro-Medical Laboratory of

the University of Pennsylvania - who consulted with Dr. Ginsberg on

several research programmes - is cautious but not discouraging. In

a recent interview Dr. Schwan remarked, "There is an interesting

possibility that Dr. Ginsberg's machine may turn out to be a very

important advancement in physical medicine."



Ironically, the effect of high-frequency radio waves on biological

systems that Dr. Ginsberg believes can help relieve infections is

one of the effects being looked for by the armed services as a

possible hazard of high-powered radio waves.



What both groups are looking for are biological responses to radio

waves that do not result from heating. Although these athermal

effects have not been demonstrated conclusively many scientists

engaged in this work agree that they exist.



Heat Long in Use



The fact that radio waves can cause heating in tissues has long been

known and has been widely used to treat inflammations and injuries

to joints and soft tissues. This treatment, called diathermy, uses

short-wave radio frequencies. Much more powerful higher-frequency

(shorter wave) radar used for this purpose would cook internal

tissues.



Dr. Ginsberg said that in 1943 he had investigated the idea that

something other than heating might be going on in tissues treated

with diathermy. In a paper published in THE MEDICAL RECORD for

December 19 of that year he reported diathermy results that he felt

could NOT BE ACCOUNTED for PURELY BY HEAT.



This led him, he said, to try to eliminate the heating effect of the

diathermy. He explained that the most logical means for doing this

seemed to be to pulse the radio waves in such a way that any heat

created would be dissipated between pulses.



With the help of Arthur Milinowski, a physicist, Dr. Ginsberg built

a machine for this purpose and soon, he claimed, supported his

contention that there was a beneficial athermal effect of radio

waves on tissues.



According to Dr. Ginsberg's theory the athermal effect of pulsed

radio waves STIMULATES THE BODY'S DEFENSE MECHANISM, marshalling the

system that scavenges foreign materials and tissue debris. This

system is believed to produce antibodies which act against

infectious invaders.



Two reports apparently substantiating claims for an athermal effect

were made in the March 28 issue of NATURE, a British scientific

publication, and in the RES BULLETIN, an American journal.



Those papers carried accounts of the bizarre behaviour of micro-

organisms and the apparent interference with heredity-controlling

material in certain plant cells CAUSED BY PULSED RADIO FREQUENCIES.



The work, done by Dr. John H. Heller and his group at the New

England Institute for Medical Research in Ridgefield, Conn., was

instigated by Dr. Ginsberg's search for scientists to look for an

athermal effect of pulsed radio frequencies. A modified version of

Dr. Ginsberg's device was used in the group's early work but it has

since built its own radio pulse generator.



Dr. Heller reported that he was UNABLE TO DETECT ANY TEMPERATURE

RISE in the cell containing tiny micro-organisms that swam either

back and forth or up and down in response to different frequencies

of the pulse radio waves.



Dr. Schwan believes his group at the University of Pennsylvania has

found still another way in which high-frequency radio waves might

affect living tissues athermally.



This is to CHANGE THE PERFORMANCE OF NERVE CELLS by acting on the

cell membrane. How this would ultimately affect the organism,

however, is not known, Dr. Schwan said.



Dr. Schwan and several other scientists agree that a great deal must

be learned at a very fundamental level to find out exactly what

effects other than heat are created by high-frequency radio waves in

living tissues and then whether those effects are good or not. This,

he explained, is a job that will take many years.



In the meantime the armed services are studying means for protecting

persons who work around radar installations with radar-reflecting

clothes and shielded buildings and passage-ways.



Those steps would be taken largely to give protection against the

heating effects of radar waves, which are known to be capable of

causing cataracts, reproductive cell damage and other injuries.



The Army, Navy and Air Force are also continuing their sponsorship

of extensive research programmes on the biological effects of high-

frequency radio wave energy. Progress in this work will be

discussed at a tri-service meeting later this year.



And extensive clinical studies are being made to see if Dr.

Ginsberg's idea of treating illness with pulsed radio waves can be

evaluated statistically with patients, even though the possible

athermal effects are not yet understood biophysically and

physiologically.

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