Quantum biology: An update and perspective

Y Kim, F Bertagna, EM D'souza, DJ Heyes… - Quantum …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Understanding the rules of life is one of the most important scientific endeavours and has
revolutionised both biology and biotechnology. Remarkable advances in observation …

Application of magnetic fields to wastewater treatment and its mechanisms: A review

Y Wang, X Gu, J Quan, G Xing, L Yang, C Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnetic field (MF) has been applied widely and successfully as an efficient, low-cost and
easy-to-use technique to enhance wastewater treatment (WWT) performance. Although the …

Why magnetic and electromagnetic effects in biology are irreproducible and contradictory?

A Buchachenko - Bioelectromagnetics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The main source of magnetic and electromagnetic effects in biological systems is now
generally accepted and demonstrated in this paper to be radical pair mechanism which …

Radical-pair-based magnetoreception amplified by radical scavenging: resilience to spin relaxation

DR Kattnig - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2017 - ACS Publications
Birds and several other species are equipped with the remarkable ability to sense the
geomagnetic field for the purpose of navigation and orientation. The primary detection …

Spin dynamics of flavoproteins

J Matysik, L Gerhards, T Theiss, L Timmermann… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This short review reports the surprising phenomenon of nuclear hyperpolarization occurring
in chemical reactions, which is called CIDNP (chemically induced dynamic nuclear …

Upper bound on the biological effects of 50/60 Hz magnetic fields mediated by radical pairs

PJ Hore - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Prolonged exposure to weak (~ 1 μT) extremely-low-frequency (ELF, 50/60 Hz) magnetic
fields has been associated with an increased risk of childhood leukaemia. One of the few …

A specific role of magnetic isotopes in biological and ecological systems. Physics and biophysics beyond

AL Buchachenko, AA Bukhvostov, KV Ermakov… - Progress in Biophysics …, 2020 - Elsevier
The great diversity of molecular processes in chemistry, physics, and biology exhibits
universal property: they are controlled by powerful factor, angular momentum. Conservation …

Magnetic field effects in proteins

AR Jones - Molecular Physics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Many animals can sense the geomagnetic field, which appears to aid in behaviours such as
migration. The influence of man-made magnetic fields on biology, however, is potentially …

Extending the operational lifetimes of all-direct electron transfer enzymatic biofuel cells by magnetically assembling and exchanging the active biocatalyst layers on …

K Herkendell, A Stemmer, R Tel-Vered - Nano Research, 2019 - Springer
Enzymatic biofuel cells promise green power generation from a variety of natural resources,
yet these systems all suffer from time-dependent degradation effects, in particular …

Nuclear spin selectivity in enzymatic catalysis: A caution for applied biophysics

A Buchachenko, A Bukhvostov, K Ermakov… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Nuclear magnetic ions 25 Mg 2+, 43 Ca 2+, and 67 Zn 2+ suppress DNA synthesis
by 3–5 times with respect to ions with nonmagnetic nuclei. This observation unambiguously …