Using the tools of synthetic biology, researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School have induced magnetism to a non-magnetic organism: yeast. And because they used a common cell pathway, the findings suggests that such magnetism could be achieved in many types of cells for a variety of industrial, medical and research applications. The findings appear in the Feb. 28 issue of PLoS Biology.
Animal Magnetism: The Making of Magnetic Yeast
