We’re curious about the life magnetic.

For years, the scientific community has been intrigued by reports of weak magnetic fields influencing biological systems. These effects are observed universally across various cell types and organisms. Yet, skepticism persists, partly due to inconsistencies in reproducing results and a lack of a clear underlying scientific explanation. Additionally, there's a cultural hesitation within the scientific community to embrace this area of study.

We're on a mission to transform skepticism into enlightened curiosity. Recent collaborative studies have yielded compelling results: when tadpoles are nurtured within an advanced shielding apparatus known as a “hypomagnetic chamber”, and which attenuates the Earth’s tiny magnetic field by almost six orders of magnitude, they are observed to present  a statistically significant rate of developmental aberrations. This state-of-the-art hypomagnetic environment thus provides a unique setting to isolate and scrutinize the influence of Earth’s tiny magnetic field on biological growth processes. The anomalies observed in these tadpoles may well be symptomatic of the intricate, and perhaps indispensable, role that Earth's faint magnetic forces play in biology.

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We've equipped our lab with the same type of chamber, and with insights from the National Xenopus Resource at the Marine Biological Lab—affectionately dubbed by us America's "tadpole university"—we're ready to revisit these astonishing studies. Our approach is rooted in Open Science: as we uncover new insights, we'll share them with you in real-time. Will you embark on this journey of discovery with us?