Magnetic remote control of biology(bsky.app)

26 pointsby AndrewGYork17 days ago3 comments

SilentM6817 days ago
Hmm, interesting :)
AndrewGYork17 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...
- dang17 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!
  - Imustaskforhelp17 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?
    dang17 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?
  - AndrewGYork17 days ago
    Thanks!
- GenerocUsername17 days ago
  don't tell me the magnetic bracelets have a measurable impact on ANY physiology
  - AndrewGYork17 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
  - Terr_17 days ago
    All the subluxation "light inside your bones" chiropractors are going to have a field-day.
AndrewGYork17 days ago
Even more context here:
https://www.science.org/content/article/magnetically-sensiti...