Magnetic remote control of biology

Posted by AndrewGYork 3 days ago

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We figured out how to turn protein function on and off, with magnetic fields from small handheld magnets.

More context here: https://www.science.org/content/article/magnetically-sensiti...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00204-9

Comments

Comment by SilentM68 3 days ago

Hmm, interesting :)

Comment by AndrewGYork 3 days ago

We figured out how to turn protein function on and off, with magnetic fields from small handheld magnets.

More context here: https://bsky.app/profile/andrewgyork.bsky.social/post/3mcbrd...

Comment by dang 3 days ago

Since https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00204-9 seems paywalled, I put it in the toptext and moved the bsky.app link to the top. Hope that's ok!

Comment by Imustaskforhelp 3 days ago

Hey dang, would there be an interest in having the main link be a skyview.social link instead?

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile...

(in the current bluesky link, only people who have a bluesky link would be able to watch it but skyview.social allows anybody to view a bluesky post even without an account, running directly within in the browser iirc)

Discovered it from the rob pike AI related recent HN post, what do you think?

Comment by dang 3 days ago

I don't have a bluesky account and can read https://bsky.app/profile/andrewgyork.bsky.social/post/3mcbrd... fine (at least I think I can) so I'm not sure what the difference is here?

Comment by AndrewGYork 3 days ago

Thanks!

Comment by GenerocUsername 3 days ago

don't tell me the magnetic bracelets have a measurable impact on ANY physiology

Comment by AndrewGYork 3 days ago

I'm fully convinced that magnets do absolutely nothing to (normal) animal physiology.

What's cool about this work though, is we show that magnetic effects on ENGINEERED biological systems can be enormous:

https://twitter.com/AndrewGYork/status/1797408565742776348

Comment by Terr_ 3 days ago

All the subluxation "light inside your bones" chiropractors are going to have a field-day.

Comment by AndrewGYork 3 days ago

Even more context here:

https://www.science.org/content/article/magnetically-sensiti...