Human development IV: the living cell has information-directed self-organisation

• Published in: TheScientificWorld Vol. 6; pp. 1132 - 1138
• Main Authors: Ventegodt, Søren, Hermansen, Tyge Dahl, Flensborg-Madsen, Trine, Nielsen, Maj Lyck, Clausen, Birgitte, Merrick, Joav
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 07.09.2006; Hindawi Limited
• Subjects: Animals; Axons - metabolism; Cell Movement; Cell Physiological Phenomena; Human Development; Humans; Organelles - metabolism; Proteins - metabolism; Review

In this paper, restricted to describe the ontogenesis of the cell, we discuss the processing of DNA through RNA to proteins and argue that this process is not able to transfer the information necessary to organize the proteins in the cell, but only to transfer the information necessary to form the s...