This collection of essays explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not
ontologically made up of substantial particles or things, as has often been assumed, but is …

Despite over a century of intensive efforts, the great gains promised by the War on Cancer
nearly 50 years ago have not materialized. Since 1999, we have analyzed the lack of …

The example of gelatine shows that extended proteins behave quite differently than globular
ones: with water they form a gel. Historically the colloid view of protoplasm was discredited …

In his research activity, Emilio Del Giudice explored the possibility to move towards a unified
view of some long-range dynamics in nature, ranging from quantum field theory in physics …

Self-organization has proven to be a universal functioning property inherent to the open
systems, including biological entities and living organisms. The flux of energy or matter …

Life can be characterized as a hierarchy of processes. It is dynamic at all levels (molecules,
cells, tissues, organisms, lineages). This chapter thus starts from the premise that living …

In contemporary established biology life is almost exclusively treated as a molecular
phenomenon. Therefore the mystery of the origin of life is sought in molecular terms and …

We have previously presented a new Systemic Evolutionary Theory of Cancer (SETOC)
based on the failure of proper endosymbiosis in eukaryotic cells. Here, we propose that the …

Biological systems like cells, bacteria, chloroplasts and other micro-organisms could
exchange quantum particles like electrons, photons and gravitational waves and have large …

This paper addresses the question whether electromagnetic frequencies measured in pure
water have common physical grounds with conditions in normal life systems. A literature …