Mophorad project

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The MOPHORAD project (Mobile Phone Radiation) should the interdisciplinary study of possible short or long-term damage to the mobile phone used radiation to neural tissue and its function, especially in children and adolescents. The leading institute was the Verum Foundation for Behavior and the Environment in Munich. This project was considered a follow -up study to the REFLEX study . It was submitted to the European Union for funding in February 2008 , but not approved. The costs were put at around 4.7 million euros, of which only a small part (1.2 million euros) would have been borne by the partners. Despite this cancellation, the project was started with the help of co-financing, but not carried out to the end.

The investigation should use human, animal and cellular models and solve the following sub-questions:

  1. Obtaining comprehensive exposure analyzes of cell phone radiation on human tissue with regard to anatomy and age
  2. Investigation of the effect of cell phone radiation on gene and protein expression , on the structure and activity of proteins and on the integrity of the genome in young and adult volunteers
  3. Investigation of the cellular, molecular, morphological and functional effects of cell phone radiation on the brains of rats of different ages after long-term exposure
  4. Characterization of genotoxic and enzymatic reactions in human cells after exposure to cell phone radiation depending on the age of the cell donor
  5. Examination of a possible causal dependence of short and long-term exposure to mobile phone radiation and its effects on genetic stability, gene expression and intracellular signal transduction. It is important to understand the mechanisms underlying these effects and to uncover markers for the tissue defects induced by cell phone radiation.

The research was designed for four years and was to be carried out by nine international partners from Switzerland (3), Germany , Austria , Finland , Spain , Israel , the People's Republic of China (all 1 each).

Instead of the Mophorad project, the Mobi-Kids study was commissioned.

The project is deemed to have failed by the end of 2010 at the latest.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Effects of mobile and communication radio, competence initiative to protect people, the environment and democracy. Issue 3: How sensitively do genes react to cell phone radiation? St. Ingbert 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812598-1-0 .
  2. ↑ Children & Mobile Telephony: Mobi-Kids beats Mophorad , Information Center against Mobile Telephony (IZgMF)
  3. ^ Statement by Karl Richter in a personal conversation on April 13, 2013.
  4. ↑ Interview with ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 205 kB) Franz Adlkofer : No reason to doubt REFLEX, July 2nd, 2009, Diagnose-Funk @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diagnose-funk.org