DO CELL NOISE?

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, had already studied yeast cells beer, discovering that their cell walls vibrated at a rate of 1,000 pulses per second. These movements, transformed into sound, creating what scientists have described as a high-frequency sound (the equivalent of two octaves above middle C on the piano). Responsible for these vibrations are molecular motors that transport proteins inside the cell

Get sounds of human cells is more difficult, because animal cells have membranes whose vibrations ripple difficult. Yet human cells "emit a whimper" when they receive light.

 

This property is taking advantage Richard Snook and Peter Gardner, a biologist at the University of Manchester, to detect cancer. To perform their experiments, they bombarded human prostate cells with infrared rays, and microphones perceived thousands of simultaneous notes generated by the cells. Statistical analysis of these sounds could be very significant, as Gardner points out:The difference between a healthy cell and a cancerous is that between two great orchestras playing time, only in the cancer orchestra tuba horribly out of tune