Solfeggio frequencies

shanered

Is it true that frequencies in the Solfeggio are used in repairing DNA?
Can somebody elaborate?

beardedmaster

Nah, that's a load of New Age pseudoscience.

darjeeling

DNA is repaired by a variety of processes depending on the nature of the damage and the circumstances in which it occurs, with a number of different enzymes (think of them as protein nano-machines) carrying out the repair.

Damage can take the form of incorrect copying during DNA replication, modification of a DNA base (through action of chemicals, radiation etc), breaks in one or both strands of the molecule, and more. In the first case, the section of the newly-made DNA is proof-read, and - if it contains mistakes - is enzymatically removed and resynthesised. In the second, excision repair enzymes excise the incorrect base and replace it with the correct version. In the third, 'ligase' enzymes stick the DNA back together. That's a very brief summary, but you'll find a good deal more on the wikipedia page on DNA repair mechanisms.

There have been many experiments done to establish the understanding of DNA repair that I've summarised above. However, a search for 'solfeggio' in the scientific literature finds only one paper, which is not connected in any way with DNA repair.

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shanered

darjeeling wrote: »

a search for 'solfeggio' in the scientific literature finds only one paper, which is not connected in any way with DNA repair.

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Which scientific paper do you mind me asking!?!

darjeeling

shanered wrote: »

Which scientific paper do you mind me asking!?!

Sure, here are the details:

Cortex. 2001 Jun;37(3):407-21.
Naming of musical notes: a selective deficit in one musical clef.
Schön D, Semenza C, Denes G.
Source
Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy. danschon@yahoo.com
Abstract
We investigated the ability to perform solfeggio, i.e. oral reading of musical notes in MP, a 65 year-old female professional musician, who, following a left temporoparietal ischemia, showed a complex pattern of amusia. The deficit on which we focused was her inability to read orally the bass (F) clef, often substituting it with the violin (G) clef. This problem could not be attributed to a lack of comprehension. The patient could in fact correctly perform on the piano the same sequences she erroneously read aloud; she was also able to correctly judge whether two strings, one in bass clef and the other in violin clef, represented the same sequence of notes. The problem seems to lie in the inability to retrieve note names keeping into account the clef-rule. It is hypothesized that, in the production of note names, this function requires the identification and application of syntactic-like information, in analogy with what is thought to happen in the retrieval of other words.

You can trawl the scientific literature at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

BTW, one thing that is known is that if you zap DNA with high intensity ultrasound, it gets chopped to bits through vibration*. It's a standard lab technique used in preparing DNA for sequencing. Whole cells subjected to ultrasonication also get very messed up.

[edit:]Actually, much of the damage is due to the formation of hydrogen peroxide, which then reacts with the DNA. The H202 is formed through 'cavitation', whereby micro-bubbles form and implode, releasing large amounts of energy that can lead to chemical reaction.[/edit]

shanered

Nice site!
Thanks for the great response!