Some scientists still hold that
the magnetic sensing cells will be found in the beak, or in birds» eyes, but working backward from the brain will help sort it out, says Dickman.
Not exact matches
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are among the many organisms which can
sense the Earth's
magnetic field through magnetoreceptive
cells.
Once the virus infected neurons with the heat -
sensing gene, the researchers injected
magnetic nanoparticles into the same brain
cells.
Güler and UVA neuroscience Ph.D. candidate Michael Wheeler engineered a gene that can make a
cell sense the presence of a
magnetic field.
«We are actually magnetically evoking behavioral responses in animals by creating a
cell that can
sense magnetic fields.