Ling's Appeal
to The VI International Congress
"Low and Superlow Fields and Radiations in Biology and Medicine"
(St.Petersburg, Russia, July 2-6, 2012)

 


Gilbert Ling in 1962

Dear colleagues,

I'm very proud to have this opportunity to address the participants of the Congress.

Fourteen years ago, I put up a Website (www.gilbertling.org) bearing the title "Science Cannot Cure Cancer and Aids without your help". Despite advanced technology at our disposal, we are getting too little because the version of cell physiology probably is not unequivocally true now as more than half a century ago.

I had been able to introduce a unifying new theory of life phenomena half a century ago in monograph entitled "A Physical Theory of the Living State, the Association-Induction (AI) Hypothesis". For the AI Hypothesis represents a transformation from Macroscopic view of life phenomena in terms of untenable semi-permeability and rigid membrane pores to a Microscopic story of auto-cooperativity and nano-protoplasm.

If I am not mistaken, one of the most urgent problems that you and other responsible leaders of the Congress are in a position to fight effectively is to get the young generations of future bio-medical scientists to arm themselves with the correct new cell and below-cell physiology. And for that we also urgently need informed and dedicated teachers.

To help those teachers I made a special effort by writing another book "Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level" (Pacific Press, 2001). The AI hypothesis did not come from nowhere. Among the important contributions are those from Soviet scientists like Dmitri Nasonov and Afanasiy Troshin of the Leningrad Institute of Cytology. Dr. Alexander Malygin from the Pavlov Institute of Physiology in close cooperation with Dr. Vladimir Matveev successfully translated my fourth book into Russian and put it on the market. I hope that Congress will help to fight and vanquish not only cancer and AIDS but even deeper threats to Mankind's future generations will face sooner than later.

I wish you great successes on this way.
Gilbert Ling
2012-May


Уважаемые коллеги!

Я очень горжусь тем, что имею возможность обратиться к участникам конгресса.

Четырнадцать лет назад на своем веб-сайте (www.gilbertling.org) я опубликовал призыв «Наука не может вылечить рак и СПИД без вашей помощи". Несмотря на имеющиеся в нашем распоряжении передовые технологии, мы достигли в этом направлении слишком мало, потому что современная версия физиологии клетки, вероятно, не столь однозначно верна сегодня, как и более полувека назад.

В 60-е годы я впервые предложил объединяющую теорию феномена жизни в монографии "Физическая теория состояния жизни: гипотеза ассоциации-индукции" (АИ). Эта гипотеза представляет собой переход от макроскопического воззрения на жизненные явления в терминах полупроницаемости и жестких мембранных пор к рассмотрению микроскопических явлений в клетке на базе рассмотрения свойств авто-кооперативности и нано-протоплазмы.

Если я не ошибаюсь, одна из наиболее актуальных проблем, с которыми вы и другие лидеры Конгресса в состоянии эффективно бороться, это воспитание молодого поколения ученых в биомедицинских дисциплинах, вооруженных правильной клеточной и субклеточной физиологией. А для этого нам также срочно необходимы современные и преданные своему делу преподаватели.

Чтобы помочь такому обучению, я приложил особые усилия в написании другой книги "Жизнь в клетке и на субклеточном уровне" (Pacific Press, 2001). Гипотеза АИ не пришла из ниоткуда. Важнейший вклад внесли в нее такие советские ученые, как Дмитрий Николаевич Насонов и Афанасий Семенович Трошин из ленинградского Института цитологии. Сегодня д-р Александр Вячеславович Малыгин из Института физиологии им. Павлова в тесном сотрудничестве с д-ром Владимиром Васильевичем Матвеевым из Института цитологии успешно перевели эту мою четвертую книгу на русский язык и предложили ее для преподавателей, студентов и других заинтересованных читателей.

Я надеюсь, что результаты работы Конгресса помогут бороться и побеждать не только такие болезни как рак и СПИД, но и более глубокие угрозы, с которыми будущие поколения человечества столкнутся рано или поздно.

Я желаю вам больших успехов на этом пути.

Гильберт Линг
Май 2012


Gilbert Ling's books:

1. Ling, G.N. A Physical Theory of the Living State: The Association-Induction Hypothesis, Waltham, Massachusetts: Blaisdell, 1962. 680 p.

2. Ling, G.N. In Search of the Physical Basis of Life, New York and London: Plenum Press, 1984. 791 p.

3. Ling, G.N. A Revolution in the Physiology of the Living Cell, Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992. 404 p.


4. Ling, G.N. Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level: the Hidden History of a Fundamental Revolution in Biology.         Книга переведена на русский язык.

Main principles of Ling’s physical theory of the living cell


"A PHYSICAL THEORY OF THE LIVING STATE:
the Association-Induction Hypothesis with Considerations of the Mechanisms Involved in Ionic Specificity, Behavior of Proteins, Selective Accumulation of Ions and Nonelectrolytes, Cellular Electrical Potentials, Ionic Permeability and Diffusion, Excitation and Inhibition, Contractile Mechanism, Enzyme Action, Drug and Hormone Action, Antibody-Antigen Reaction, Fertilization, Chemical Embryology, Growth, Differentiation, and Cancer."
GILBERT N. LING



"Ling offers no less than... a general molecular theory of life phenomena... a major synthesis, moving from the minor variables at the molecular level to the major properties of the cellular level... Such an integrative and synthetic treatment cannot fail to give the whole field of biology a great forward impetus."
RALPH W. GERARD, University of Michigan


"At a time when we look forward to the merging of the physical and biological sciences, this is a most stimulating book, distinguished by a bold and inquisitive attitude on the one hand, and careful experimental methods on the other."
C.N. YANG, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1957



GILBERT N. LING, born in 1919, a native of China, entered the National Central University in Chungking as a student of animal husbandry. After two years, he transferred to the biology department and received a B.Sc. degree in 1943. Having done graduate work in zoology at the Tsing Hua University in Kunming, he won the Boxer Indemnity Fellowship, in 1945, to study physiology in the United States. In 1948, he received his Ph.D. degree in physiology from the University of Chicago, where he had studied under Dr. Ralph W. Gerard.

Since that time, Dr. Ling has been engaged, without interruption, in research while successively holding the positions of Seymour Coman Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, Instructor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois School of Medicine, and Senior Research Scientist at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Ling is presently Director of the Department of Molecular Biology at Pennsylvania Hospital.

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IN SEARCH OF THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE

GILBERT N. LING
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"The image [of science] has been previously drawn... from the study of finished scientific achievements as these are recorded in the classes and more recently in the textbooks... Inevitably... a concept of science drawn from them is no more likely to fit the enterprise that produced them than an image of national culture drawn from a tourist brochure or language text."
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Any scientific investigation is an open-ended, ongoing process that must continually reevaluate past decisions and build and expand upon new theories and research findings. In Search of the Physical Basis of Life chronicles the history of scientific efforts to understand the living cell - the basic unit of all life - and presents the foundation of a new paradigm in cell physiology, the association-induction (A-I) hypothesis.

Dr. Ling's monumental treatise considers the rise to dominance of the membrane pump theory and then builds a solid framework for the A-I hypothesis, citing the reasons that led to its brief introduction in 1952 and a detailed version ten years later. The A-I hypothesis suggests that cellular ions are adsorbed on anionic protein side chains and that intracellular water is adsorbed in multilayers on polypeptide chains in the cell, so that the components of a cell exist in a dynamically ordered and functionally coherent array. In addition to the historical and theoretical development of the A-I hypothesis, Dr. Ling presents results of the extensive worldwide testing of alternate theories that has been carried out over the past thirty years. Distinguished by its all-inclusive approach to a science that reaches across the natural boundaries of time and the man-made boundaries of specialized fields, this unique volume synthesizes old and new information of great overall significance.

For those who anticipate that progress in cell physiology may soon match that in genetics and for those who simply need a more useful set of basic concepts in bio-logical and medical research, this book is a must.

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A REVOLUTION IN THE PHYSIOLOGY
OF THE LIVING CELL

GILBERT N. LING
Full text PDF

"Dr. Ling's work is sophisticated and essential. This book will guide its readers to the new era of genuine biology."
Dr. Hiroshia Tamagawa, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

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LIFE AT THE CELL AND BELOW-CELL LEVEL.
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF A FUNDAMENTAL REVOLUTION IN BIOLOGY

GILBERT N. LING

"Life on earth is in increasing danger. In my view, if Gilbert N. Ling's association-induction hypothesis is widely taught to the younger generation, we could have a much better chance
to save life on earth".
Prof. Miklós Kellermayer, University of Péch, Péch, Hungary


Some important Gilbert Ling's articles in PDF format are available here:
Physiological Chemistry and Physics and Medical NMR

Last publication:
Ling G.N. A Convergence of Experimental and Theoretical Breakthroughs Affirms the PM theory of Dynamically Structures Cell Water on the Theory's 40th Birthday. In: Water and the Cell. (Pollack G.H., Cameron I.L. and Wheatley D.N., eds.). Springer, 2006, p. 1-52.


List of Ling's papers