Chemistry World: Researchers use magnetic field to alter animal behavior

By John DellaContrada

Release Date: June 27, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article in Chemistry World reports UB researchers have implanted nanoscale particles of Manganese ferrite into the body of a worm which, when exposed to a radiofrequency magnetic field, heated up and the worms changed the direction in which they were moving.

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