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Meeting the imperative to accelerate environmental bioelectromagnetics research
Environmental Research ( IF 7.7 ) Pub Date : 2018-02-23 , DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.01.036
Lance McKee

In this article, the author draws on his experience in the world of geospatial information technology standards to suggest a path toward acceleration of bioelectromagnetics science. Many studies show biological effects of extremely low frequency (ELF) and radiofrequency (RF) radiation despite that fact that the radiation is too weak to cause temperature changes in biological features. Considered together in worst case scenarios, such effects, many of which appear to have long latencies, could have potentially disastrous consequences for the health and safety of humans and wildlife. Other studies show no such effects, and in both cases, often there are significant research quality deficits that make it difficult to draw firm conclusions from the data. The progress of bioelectromagnetics science is retarded by a lack of standard data models and experimental protocols that could improve the overall quality of research and make it easier for researchers to benefit from omics-related bioinformatics resources. "Certainty of safety" of wireless devices used in digital communications and remote sensing (radar) is impossible without dosimetry standards that reflect the effects of non-thermal exposures. Electrical signaling in biological systems, a poorly funded research domain, is as biologically important as chemical signaling, a richly funded research domain, and these two types of signaling are inextricably connected. Entreprenuerial scientists pursuing bioelectronic innovations have begun to attract new funding. With appropriate institutional coordination, this new funding could equally benefit those investigating environmental effects of ELF and RF radiation. The author proposes a concerted effort among both bioelectronics technology stakeholders and environmental bioelectromagnetics science researchers to collaborate in developing institutional arrangements and standard data models that would give the science a stronger bioinformatics platform and give researchers better access to omics data. What is proposed here is essentially a bioelectromagnetics omics initiative.



中文翻译:

满足加快环境生物电磁学研究的势在必行

在本文中,作者借鉴了他在地理空间信息技术标准领域的经验,提出了加速生物电磁科学发展的途径。许多研究表明,极低频率(ELF)和射频(RF)辐射的生物学效应,尽管该辐射太弱而无法引起生物学特征的温度变化。在最坏的情况下一起考虑,这种影响(其中许多似乎具有较长的潜伏期)可能对人类和野生动植物的健康与安全造成灾难性的后果。其他研究没有显示这样的影响,并且在两种情况下,通常都存在明显的研究质量缺陷,这使得很难从数据中得出明确的结论。由于缺乏标准的数据模型和实验协议,生物电磁学的进步受到阻碍,这些数据模型和实验协议可能会提高研究的整体质量,并使研究人员更容易从与组学相关的生物信息学资源中受益。没有反映非热暴露影响的剂量标准,就不可能在数字通信和遥感(雷达)中使用无线设备的“安全性”。生物系统中电信号的研究领域资金匮乏,生物学上的重要性与化学信号系统的研究领域资金一样丰富,而这两种信号却有着千丝万缕的联系。追求生物电子创新的企业家科学家已经开始吸引新的资金。在适当的机构协调下,这项新的资助同样可以使那些研究ELF和RF辐射的环境影响的人受益。作者提出了生物电子技术利益相关者和环境生物电磁科学研究人员之间的共同努力,以合作开发机构安排和标准数据模型,这将为科学提供更强大的生物信息学平台,并使研究人员能够更好地访问组学数据。这里提出的实质上是一种生物电磁组学计划。作者提出了生物电子技术利益相关者和环境生物电磁科学研究人员之间的共同努力,以合作开发机构安排和标准数据模型,这将为科学提供更强大的生物信息学平台,并为研究人员提供更好的组学数据访问途径。这里提出的实质上是一种生物电磁组学计划。作者提出了生物电子技术利益相关者和环境生物电磁科学研究人员之间的共同努力,以合作开发机构安排和标准数据模型,这将为科学提供更强大的生物信息学平台,并为研究人员提供更好的组学数据访问途径。这里提出的实质上是一种生物电磁组学计划。

更新日期:2018-02-23
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