Control of Cell Division by the Electrical Voltage of the Surface Membrane
Clarence D. Cone, Jr. · 1970
Cell membrane voltage controls division, suggesting EMF disruption of electrical balance could promote cancer.
Plain English Summary
This 1970 research by Dr. Cone explored how electrical voltage across cell membranes controls cell division, focusing on ionic concentrations and their relationship to DNA synthesis. The study investigated fundamental mechanisms that could explain how disrupted membrane voltage might lead to uncontrolled cell growth, including cancer development.
Why This Matters
This foundational research established a critical connection that EMF researchers continue to explore today: how electrical fields affect the voltage across cell membranes, and how those changes can trigger abnormal cell division. Dr. Cone's work was pioneering because it identified the cellular membrane as a key control point for cell growth and division. What this means for you is significant. Every EMF exposure, from your smartphone to your WiFi router, creates electrical fields that can potentially alter the voltage across your cell membranes. While this 1970 study didn't directly measure EMF exposure, it laid the scientific groundwork for understanding why electromagnetic fields might promote cancer development by disrupting normal cellular voltage patterns that keep cell division in check.
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Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study.
Study Details
To develop and experimentally verify a theory that the cellular ionic concentration pattern, caused by the electrical voltage across the surface membrane, exerts precise control over division in body cells, and to explain the functional connection between uncontrolled proliferation and metastasis in cancer.
Tests with mammalian cells were conducted to verify the theory. Rapidly dividing cells in culture we...
Division was completely, but reversibly, blocked by highly negative Eo levels (-70 mV and beyond) wh...
The theory proposes that the cellular ionic concentrations, which generate the EM level, determine whether or not a cell will divide. The fundamental implication is that the primary, the really essential change which occurs when a normal cell becomes transformed to a malignant one consists in a basic functional alteration in the molecular architecture and specificity of the cell surface. This surface aberrancy accounts for both of the primary pathological features of cancer: the decreased adhesiveness of the cells, allowing them to invade and metastasize, while simultaneously producing the associated lowering of the En level which permits the unrestrained proliferation of malignancy.
Show BibTeX
@article{control_of_cell_division_by_the_electrical_voltage_of_the_surface_membrane_g5914,
author = {Clarence D. Cone and Jr.},
title = {Control of Cell Division by the Electrical Voltage of the Surface Membrane},
year = {1970},
}