Magnetic remote control of biology(bsky.app)

18 pointsby AndrewGYork8 hours ago3 comments

SilentM682 hours ago
Hmm, interesting :)
AndrewGYork6 hours ago
Even more context here:
https://www.science.org/content/article/magnetically-sensiti...
AndrewGYork8 hours 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...
- dang6 hours 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!
  - Imustaskforhelp4 hours 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?
    dang14 minutes 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?
  - AndrewGYork6 hours ago
    Thanks!
- GenerocUsername6 hours ago
  don't tell me the magnetic bracelets have a measurable impact on ANY physiology
  - AndrewGYork3 hours 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
  - Terr_4 hours ago
    All the subluxation "light inside your bones" chiropractors are going to have a field-day.