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ALTHOUGH there is considerable controversy over the validity of any given example of the influence of a magnetic field on a biological system, the number of such reported phenomena1 continue to make it a useful task to speculate on mechanisms which are reasonable on a molecular level. The direct influence of magnetic fields on chemical equilibrium or rate of reaction has occasionally been reported; however, this cannot usually be reproduced, and the general weight of evidence is that such effects are insignificant2. No satisfactory picture of what a weak magnetic field can do to molecular-level phenomena seems to have been advanced.
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LABES, M. A Possible Explanation for the Effect of Magnetic Fields on Biological Systems. Nature 211, 968 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211968a0
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