{"id":34598,"date":"2017-02-16T01:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T09:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/radiobio-research-effort-aims-to-find-the-role-of-electromagnetic-signaling-in-biological-systems"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:12:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:12:52","slug":"radiobio-research-effort-aims-to-find-the-role-of-electromagnetic-signaling-in-biological-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/radiobio-research-effort-aims-to-find-the-role-of-electromagnetic-signaling-in-biological-systems","title":{"rendered":"RadioBio research effort aims to find the role of electromagnetic signaling in biological systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radiobio-research-effort-aims-to-find-the-role-of-electromagnetic-signaling-in-biological-systems.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on DARPA\u2019s Quantum Biosystem program \u201cRadioBio\u201d<br \/> During Phase 1, performers will be asked to theoretically model and simulate hypothesized electromagnetic signaling pathways and then experimentally test those theoretical predictions.<\/p>\n<p>In Phase 2, the goal would be to independently develop test beds to replicate, confirm, and demonstrate the pathways modeled in Phase 1 and reveal design principles potentially relevant to biological or other applications aka can we enable human to human communication without a device.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ARLINGTON, Va. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials launched a new program that seeks to establish if purposeful electromagnetic wave signaling between biological cells exists \u2014 and if evidence supports that it does \u2014 to determine what information is being transferred.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/mil-embedded.com\/topics\/radiobio\">RadioBio<\/a> program is a <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/mil-embedded.com\/topics\/research\">research<\/a> effort and even if it proves that electromagnetic signal occur between cells applications are years away, officials say. The validity of existing and new electromagnetic biosignaling claims requires an understanding of how the structure and function of microscopic, natural <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/mil-embedded.com\/topics\/antennas\">antennas<\/a> are capable of generating and receiving information in a noisy spectral environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many complex interactions within and between cells, so determining if electromagnetic waves, which could be low or high frequencies, somehow play a role in transmitting and receiving meaningful signals through what might be an ion-rich, aqueous solution is a significant challenge,\u201d says Mike Fiddy, DARPA program manager. \u201cIf we can prove that purposeful signaling is happening, the next step would be to discover how the process works. This insight could eventually lead to a broad range of technologies important in biology as well as new small antenna designs, and other innovative concepts for communication systems in ever increasing cluttered electromagnetic environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/mil-embedded.com\/news\/radiobio-research-effort-aims-to-find-the-role-of-electromagnetic-signaling-in-biological-systems\/\">http:\/\/mil-embedded.com\/news\/radiobio-research-effort-aims-t...l-systems\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on DARPA\u2019s Quantum Biosystem program \u201cRadioBio\u201d During Phase 1, performers will be asked to theoretically model and simulate hypothesized electromagnetic signaling pathways and then experimentally test those theoretical predictions. In Phase 2, the goal would be to independently develop test beds to replicate, confirm, and demonstrate the pathways modeled in Phase 1 and reveal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58702,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34598\/revisions\/58702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}