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EXPERIMENTS have recently been performed in order to determine whether exposure to a magnetic field has any visible effect on normal cells cultivated in vitro. The tissue employed was obtained from the heart of chick embryos of eight to nine days incubation, and the cultures were prepared by the hanging drop technique in a medium of fowl plasma and saline extract of embryonic tissue. After the first sub-cultivation, the culture chosen for treatment was placed in a small incubator between the poles of a magnet, the glass slide bearing the culture lying in a vertical plane, midway between the poles. The field strength, as measured in the air gap between the poles (after removal of the incubator), was about 5,000 gauss.
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PAYNE-SCOTT, R., LOVE, W. Tissue Cultures Exposed to the Influence of a Magnetic Field. Nature 137, 277 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137277b0
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