{"id":92816,"date":"2019-06-28T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/magnetic-fields-encourage-cellular-reprogramming"},"modified":"2019-06-28T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T18:02:48","slug":"magnetic-fields-encourage-cellular-reprogramming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/magnetic-fields-encourage-cellular-reprogramming","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Fields Encourage Cellular Reprogramming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-fields-encourage-cellular-reprogramming.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could be used in a portable device to genetically reprogram ones body.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Environmental conditions, such as heat, acidity, and mechanical forces, can affect the behavior of cells. Some biologists have even shown that magnetic fields can influence them. Now, for the first time, an international team reports that low-strength magnetic fields may foster the reprogramming of cellular development, aiding in the transformation of adult cells into pluripotent stem cells (<i>ACS Nano<\/i> 2014, DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.cen.acs.org\/cgi-bin\/cen\/trustedproxy.cgi?redirect=http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/nn502923s?source=cen\" title=\"10.1021\/nn502923s\">10.1021\/nn502923s<\/a>). If confirmed, the phenomenon could lead to new tools for bioengineers to control cell fates and help researchers understand the potential health effects of changing magnetic fields on astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists have been building up evidence that magnetic fields affect living things, says <a href=\"http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/biology\/faculty\/levin\/\" title=\"Michael Levin\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Levin<\/a>, director of Tufts University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellregeneration.org\/\" title=\"Center for Regenerative & Developmental Biology\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Regenerative &amp; Developmental Biology<\/a>, who was not involved in the new study. For example, plants and amphibian embryos develop abnormally when shielded from Earth\u2019s geomagnetic field. And there\u2019s some clinical evidence that particular electromagnetic frequencies promote bone fracture healing and wound repair (<i>Eur. Cytokine Network<\/i> 2013, DOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1684\/ecn.2013.0332\" title=\"10.1684\/ecn.2013.0332\" target=\"_blank\">10.1684\/ecn.2013.0332<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a huge unknown how a cell senses electromagnetic fields and then translates that into a change in identity or a change in gene expression,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vet.upenn.edu\/people\/faculty-clinician-search\/CHRISTOPHERLENGNER\" title=\"Christopher J. Lengner\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher J. Lengner<\/a>, a cell biologist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/\" title=\"University of Pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\">University of Pennsylvania<\/a>. He worked with a group of bioengineers led by <a href=\"http:\/\/stem.dongguk.edu\/bbs\/board.php?bo_table=lab_1&wr_id=2\" title=\"Jongpil Kim\" target=\"_blank\">Jongpil Kim<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dongguk.edu\/mbs\/en\/\" title=\"Dongguk University\" target=\"_blank\">Dongguk University<\/a>, in Seoul, South Korea, to see if these fields could influence a process they were all interested in: reprogramming a cell\u2019s developmental state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could be used in a portable device to genetically reprogram ones body. Environmental conditions, such as heat, acidity, and mechanical forces, can affect the behavior of cells. Some biologists have even shown that magnetic fields can influence them. Now, for the first time, an international team reports that low-strength magnetic fields may foster the reprogramming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}