Preliminary evaluation of nanoscale biogenic magnetite-based ferromagnetic transduction mechanisms for mobile phone bioeffects.
Cranfield C, Wieser HG, Al Madan J, Dobson J. · 2003
View Original AbstractMobile phone radiation caused significant cell death in bacteria containing brain-like magnetic particles, revealing a potential mechanism for EMF health effects.
Plain English Summary
Researchers tested whether tiny magnetic particles naturally found in the human brain could be a mechanism for how mobile phone radiation affects living cells. Using bacteria that contain similar magnetic particles, they found that mobile phone emissions caused significantly more cell death compared to unexposed bacteria (p = 0.037). This provides the first experimental evidence supporting the theory that natural magnetite in our brains might make us more sensitive to phone radiation.
Why This Matters
This groundbreaking 2003 study addresses one of the most important questions in EMF research: how do mobile phone emissions interact with the human body at the cellular level? The discovery that biogenic magnetite (naturally occurring magnetic particles in our brains) can serve as a transduction mechanism for mobile phone bioeffects offers a compelling biological explanation for the health impacts many studies have documented. The fact that bacteria containing magnetite similar to what's found in human brains showed significantly increased cell death when exposed to mobile phone emissions suggests our brains may be particularly vulnerable to these frequencies. While the researchers appropriately note that bacterial effects don't automatically translate to human health impacts, this study provides crucial mechanistic evidence that mobile phone radiation can indeed cause biological harm through interaction with naturally occurring magnetic particles in our bodies.
Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study.
Study Details
The aim of this study is to Oberve Preliminary evaluation of nanoscale biogenic magnetite-based ferromagnetic transduction mechanisms for mobile phone bioeffects.
We have tested these models experimentally for the first time using a bacterial analogue (Magnetospi...
Experimental evaluation revealed that exposure to mobile phone emissions resulted in a consistent an...
Show BibTeX
@article{c_2003_preliminary_evaluation_of_nanoscale_1999,
author = {Cranfield C and Wieser HG and Al Madan J and Dobson J.},
title = {Preliminary evaluation of nanoscale biogenic magnetite-based ferromagnetic transduction mechanisms for mobile phone bioeffects.},
year = {2003},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15382422/},
}