Magnetic Fields and Cells

Dear Colleagues,

The remote and noninvasive control of living cells using magnetic fields (MFs) is at the top of the wish list of many researchers working in biology and medicine. The physical basis of the idea is that magnetic fields penetrate biological tissue practically without attenuation, but at specific sites in a cell, an MF is capable of triggering a wide spectrum of molecular processes, thereby drastically changing the whole-cell machinery and fate.

Knowledge of interaction mechanisms between living cells and MFs opens avenues for new research and MF applications in the following areas: magnetobiology, magnetogenetics, neuroscience, cell therapy, cell reprogramming, transcriptional responses to MFs, magnetic cryoconservation of cells and organs, cell magnetophoresis, membrane magnetoporation, biotechnologies using MFs, cell levitation and tissue engineering with MFs, magnetic carriers, magnetic nanorobots for applications in medicine, etc.

Therefore, precise knowledge of the specific cellular and molecular mechanisms behind magnetic field–cell interactions is a top priority for the scientific community.

In this Topical Collection of Cells, we invite both review papers discussing the current state of the art regarding the impact of magnetic fields on cells as well as research articles reporting new effects of MFs on the cell machinery, including reports describing novel technologies relevant to the study of biomagnetic effects at the cellular level.

Dr. Vitalii Zablotskii
Dr. Xin Zhang
Collection Editors

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