No, not really.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/17210

Oh wow, didn't even realize Anikeeva and Jasanoff had written on this, too:

https://elifesciences.org/articles/19569

Just too much snake oil in this field -- in top Nature journals, nonetheless. It's funny, when I was an undergrad I took a research idea to Alan Jasanoff and he rejected it with similarly simple back-of-the-envelope math. Guess he has a knack for sniffing out BS.