Introduction to Hierarchical, Heterogeneous, Polyscale Cell Biology and its Applications

The Cell Biology is so large discipline that is being studied in universities with a separate sub-disciplines. Following this tendency it is convenient to have outlined issues within only the Cell Biology also as the Polyscale subject. A subject with multiple scales itself in spite that cell is so small object. Nevertheless, and biologists know that this tiny Object has tremendous complexity by itself just at the Upper few scales only.

We are repeating here some texts from the General Biology Polyscale description as it is introduced in the above section. We know that, and it is established in the HSP-VAT that the mathematical formulation, statements, and modeling of physical processes occurring in strongly heterogeneous media results on the whole in the necessity for a particular medium scaled characteristics development, and accordingly, for the process each scale governing equations.

This is all applicable to the Heterogeneous Scaled nature of assignments within the Cell Biology as well.

Among major aims of the HSP-VAT application to Cell Biology issues are the following:

1) Provide theoretical derivation of main sets of governing equations (GE) on each level of the hierarchy and estimate feasibility of closure developments.

2) Develop theoretical mechanisms and varieties of closure approaches for each specific biological or/and medicine system hierarchical level.

3) Estimate the feasibility of theoretical procedures for the development of numerical convergent algorithms for solution evaluations of the equations governing the process.

With this below statement we hope to attract attention of people working in Cell Biology and might be thinking that only among them could be found the persons that move forward the discipline's agenda and focus? Well, read this below and be honest to yourself at least.

And remember - Biology can not be sustained by itself without other sciences participation and even guidance.

What Can not be Explained and Answered by the One Scale Homogeneous Biology

No matter how hard and how clever people have been trying to do this. Few main reasons for that are given in:

  • "Why is it Different from Homogeneous and other Theories and Methods of Heterogeneous Media Mechanics/(other Sciences) Description?"

    where few words on logic and history of the HSP-VAT are spelled in

  • "Announcements"

    along with the fundamental controversial grounds for this currently dominating "theological" physics acting in and on behalf of Biology explained in

  • "Reductionism and/versus Holism in Physics and Biology - are Both Defective Concepts without Scaleportation "

  • "What is in use in Continuum Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media as of Through ~1950 - 2005?"

    See just small portion of arguments in our scaled solutions and data reduction as in

  • "Globular Morphology Two Scale Electrostatic Exact Solutions"

    and other subsections of this website. Etc., etc.

    Just the short first come first appeared list, following the TOC in many Biology Textbooks:

    Proteins:

  • There is no chance correctly provide and model the now important "Protein - to - Protein Interaction" analysis. Thus, the modeling that labs having had right now is also of obsolete 30 years old physics, chemistry base.

    These sentences above and below on areas of inability to cover them with the homogeneous one-scale physics and chemistry tools, were written as around ~2002-2003, or even earlier. Just recently I was pointed out to the place where people wrote the similar statements on the features of "Protein - to - Protein" or Macromolecule-to-Macromolecule interactions. Where? - in California, and New York; just we can find that in the web -

  • "National Center for Dynamic Interactome Research"

    where they spell the words -"Current technologies are not suitable to reveal dynamic interactions between macromolecules at sufficient scale, with sufficient reliability or with sufficient sensitivity to keep pace with the genomic revolution brought about by sequencing technologies. The vision of the National Center for Dynamic Interactome Research is to develop innovative and dramatically new approaches for the detection, isolation, and analysis of macromolecular complexes that will enable scientists to realize the full potential of the revolution brought about by genomics, interdisciplinary research, and proteomics technologies."

    That's good to read. Meanwhile, we have some ideas to tell about on their own tools developed and the results obtained with those tools, a few published in "Nature." The tools are still of the one-scale orthodox homogeneous physics. Scrutiny has been uploaded in the below subsections -

  • "How not to Scale-Down...or -Up.. .. Analysis of Current Studies on Scaled, Collective Phenomena in Biology Fields Presented as the One-Scale Concepts "

  • "How the Orthodox Homogeneous Physics and Following it Orthodox Mathematics Screwing Biology Now **"

    Ferments:

  • Finding the Michaelis-Menten constant K_{m} is the attractive problem, but is impossible task for Homogeneous Biology, for example. The trouble is with the definition and the method of assessment as for homogeneous matter which is not really of this kind. The current theory and practices reflect those from physics of 30-40 years old, and definitely are obsolete. Etc., etc.

    Membranes:

  • Not possible to Model and Simulate correctly the 1D Across Transport, the 2D Surficial Control and Transport, and the 3D Function and Control in Cell and in Tissue. What is used in chromatography right now is the self-appointed alchemistry, skillful anyway, of obsolete knowledge from Fluid Mechanics. Some of the explanations for this statement are given here in

  • - "Effective Coefficients in Fluid Mechanics"

  • - "Laminar Flow in Porous Media"

  • - "Fluid Mechanics"

    Etc., etc.

    Workers went down the scales to the atomic and protein scales. Nevertheless, this won't help in core to find ways to model the polyscale phenomena in 2D or better 3D cross transport polyscale reality. Why is that read in -

  • "How not to Scale-Down...or -Up.. .. Analysis of Current Studies on Scaled, Collective Phenomena in Biology Fields Presented as the One-Scale Concepts "

    Cells:

  • No chance to figure out and to model and simulate neither Momentum nor Energy Transport within the cell. Just because the way biologists right now do this conceptual understanding and modeling - is out of touch (the fun to read). They follow the orthodox physics of 30 years old as of the times workers took their physics (atomic) courses. Those Homogeneous medium descriptions are too simplistic, obsolete, and even wrong.

  • There is no chance to understand the overall energy production, transformation to the other types of energy, and transport even within the singular cell. Those explanations by now on are simply fragmentary and disconnected within the whole picture, see again in -

  • "How not to Scale-Down...or -Up.. .. Analysis of Current Studies on Scaled, Collective Phenomena in Biology Fields Presented as the One-Scale Concepts "


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