Electric charge disorder: A key to biological order?

Electrically net-neutral objects are found to attract strongly if a small amount of charge disorder is present on their surface, holding the key to a possible understanding of biological pattern recognition. This article demonstrates that random patches of disordered, frozen electric charges spread throughout surfaces, which are overall neutral, can interact with the long-range twisting force strong enough to be felt across the whole mesoscopic scale and compete with Casimir-van der Waals forces.