To further make the demonstration unassailable, the EMS carrying the DNA information were recorded as a digital file and sent via Internet to a recipient laboratory where work on this DNA or on the bacterium or virus which was the source of that DNA had never been done (Fig. 3). Several labs in Italy and Germany accepted the challenge. Here, as an example, we show the results obtained at G¨ottingen University using a recorded file (digitized in a lap top computer in our laboratory) of ribosomal 16S DNA from Borrelia burgdorferi (Fig. 4). In the German laboratory, the electric current resulting from the digital file communicated by our lab was converted to analog and was amplified. The current was then connected to a solenoid. A tube of water was inserted in the solenoid and in this way was submitted to the induced modulated magnetic field for one hour. Then the PCR ingredients were introduced in an aliquot of water from the tube, and after 40 PCR cycles of amplification the original DNA was detected, as shown by a specific band in gel electrophoresis of the expected molecular weight.
In the German laboratory, the electric current resulting from the digital file communicated by our lab was converted to analog and was amplified. The current was then connected to a solenoid. A tube of water was inserted in the solenoid and in this way was submitted to the induced modulated magnetic field for one hour. Then the PCR ingredients were introduced in an aliquot of water from the tube, and after 40 PCR cycles of amplification the original DNA was detected, as shown by a specific band in gel electrophoresis of the expected molecular weight. These intriguing results raised several questions :