The long-dreamed-of capability of monitoring the molecular machinery in living systems has
not been realized yet, mainly due to the technical limitations of current sensing technologies …

Magnetic nanoparticles have received tremendous attention in diverse fields because of
their unique nanoscale physicochemical properties and the potential for a wide range of …

Although it has been known for almost half a century that migratory birds can detect the
direction of the Earth's magnetic field, the primary sensory mechanism behind this …

In the past decade, iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) have attracted more and more attention
for their excellent physicochemical properties and promising biomedical applications. In this …

The notion that animals can detect the Earth's magnetic field was once ridiculed, but is now
well established. Yet the biological nature of such magnetosensing phenomenon remains …

Quantum mechanics provides the most accurate microscopic description of the world around
us, yet the interface between quantum mechanics and biology is only now being explored …

Birds can use two kinds of information from the geomagnetic field for navigation: the
direction of the field lines as a compass and probably magnetic intensity as a component of …

Electricity, the interaction between electrically charged objects, is widely known to be
fundamental to the functioning of living systems. However, this appreciation has largely …

Forty years ago, Papi and colleagues discovered that anosmic pigeons cannot find their way
home when released at unfamiliar locations. They explained this phenomenon by …

Understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms that mediate magnetosensation in
vertebrates is a formidable scientific problem,. One hypothesis is that magnetic information is …