Vol 43 # 3 September 2011 - Kma.org.kw

174 Magical Mem-Brain- Biology’s Holy Grail
September 2011
The total responsibility of managing those functions
rested with the membrane of a single cell: in short,
the membrane was the cell’s brain; the caption of the
article [6] . The nuclear genes, the mitochondrial genes,
the chromosomal proteins, and the other parts of the
cell had to obey the dictates of the cell membrane to
function, as the latter is the only communication facility
that the cell interior had with the outer world. The cell
wall is a bipolar phosphor-lipid (fat) coat which is
basically hydrophobic but has important hydrophilic
functions as well. The most important gates (receptors)
built into the wall are the Integrated Membrane
Proteins (IMPs) which have a central tunnel for things
to come into the cell from outside like nutrition etc.
and the excretory products to go out [5] .
Just like the semiconductor silicon chips, the cell
wall channels have gates (receptors) and channels.
The gates work like a revolving door turning in one
direction alone letting in certain things while blocking
the rest. There are three very important areas where
these channels work. Sodium-Potassium ATPase
system is one. This will allow, with each revolution,
three positively charged Sodium atoms to get out
of the cell while throwing in two positively charged
Potassium atoms into the cell from the environment [5] .
These gates rotate like a revolving gate hundreds of
times every second. Since the fat membrane does not
allow the charge to get out of the cell keeping the
inside of the cell negatively charged with the outside
being positive. This membrane potential is the reason
why each human cell is a very efficient self charging
battery which supplies electricity (energy) for all
bodily functions. Consequently, the cell wall uses up a
large amount our daily expenditure of energy.
The second variety of effector proteins, called
cytoskeletal proteins, regulate the shape and motility
of cells. That is why we are called animate organisms
with locomotion. The third type, the enzymes, breaks
down or synthesizes all molecules. All three, when
activated along with the channels, serve as signals
which bind the chromosome’s regulatory proteins that
form a sleeve around the DNA of the cell, unlike in the
older wisdom where the genes were to control their
own activity. It is the membrane’s effector proteins,
which operate in response to external stimuli to the
cell wall, which control the “reading of the genes
so that worn out proteins could be cast off and new
ones formed.” In short, cell’s operations are primary
responsibility of the environmental signals coming in
through the cell wall. Since gene survival depends on
the ever changing environment, DNA blueprints can
not control the operations of the cell. This makes the
cell wall the “true brain” of the cell and, consequently,
the organism.
To get smarter during evolution, the single cell
organisms got together to result in multicellular
organisms that we see today [5] . Now the advantage
is that one could have trillions of IMPs stuck all
over the cell walls to get better interaction with the
environment. When the cells got together, they realized
that it is better to have certain cells do exclusively
some of the functions, instead of all the cells doing all
the functions to economize on energy. That is how the
nervous system with the brain developed to specially
interact with the environment. There was further
specialization in those cells also as we see today.
Similarly, the other organs were formed for special
tasks. However, the master of the orchestra still is the
cell wall. The cell wall becomes a liquid crystal like
your laptop computer screens. The cell thus becomes
a programable chip whose working, including gene
activity, are primarily controlled by the environmental
signals and NOT genes [5] . This is the secret of life.
Bruce Lipton, writing in his celebrated classic-The
Biology of Belief- has this to say, in addition. “Imagine
a population of trillions of individuals living under
one roof in a state of perpetual happiness. Such a
community exists - it is called the human body.”
The same fact was illustrated by another quantum
physicist, Fritz-Albert Popp, who showed that the
photon light (Bio-Photons) from each DNA in the
human body in health is in synch with one another
and suffer also together when they do [6] . Even when
an ointment is applied on the hand, the photon lights
in the brain also change! Human body works better
than human societies. There are no “have not’s” in the
human system. All are haves only. If mankind learns
that lesson from the cells this world would be a better
place to live in. For example, cancer cells are those
“homeless, jobless” cells that live off other healthy
cells in the human body, like the terrorists [5] .
There is hope for mankind even in this “maneating-man”
world. This earth shaking research done
by a Stanford biologist, published in PLOS biology
in 2004 illustrates that truth. Writing an editorial on
that study, Franz BM de Wall of Emery University has
this to say “even the fiercest primates do not forever
need to stay that way” [7] . This study showed elegantly
how some of the ferocious baboons, genetically said
to be programed for violence were tamed by the
females to be co-operative and loving, proving once
again the truth that environment shapes our genes
and our future. There is hope for mankind. Humans
need not be stuck with the greed to acquire more and
more material possessions beyond what is necessary
for sustenance, and the more dangerous obsession of
ideological control of others. Most human violence
is neither genetically mandated nor biologically
necessary. We will be able to change that by altering
the atmosphere which will become necessary with
the explosive growth of the population and poisoning
of the natural resources of the world. There will be a