Hundreds of studies have found that weak magnetic fields can significantly influence various
biological systems. However, the underlying mechanisms behind these phenomena remain …

Even though the bioeffects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) have been extensively
investigated during the past several decades, our understandings of the bioeffects of EMR …

Night-migratory songbirds are remarkably proficient navigators. Flying alone and often over
great distances, they use various directional cues including, crucially, a light-dependent …

Night-migratory songbirds have a light-dependent magnetic compass sense, the mechanism
of which is thought to depend on the photochemical formation of radical pairs in …

The geomagnetic field provides directional information for birds. The avian magnetic
compass is an inclination compass that uses not the polarity of the magnetic field but the …

The biophysical mechanism of the magnetic compass sensor in migratory songbirds is
thought to involve photo-induced radical pairs formed in cryptochrome (Cry) flavoproteins …

The light-dependent magnetic compass sense of night-migratory songbirds can be disrupted
by weak radiofrequency fields. This finding supports a quantum mechanical, radical-pair …

Cryptochromes (CRYs) function as blue light photoreceptors in diverse physiological
processes in nearly all kingdoms of life. Over the past several decades, they have emerged …

The cryptochrome/photolyase (CRY/PL) family represents an ancient group of proteins
fulfilling two fundamental functions. While photolyases repair UV-induced DNA damages …

That the rates and yields of reactions of organic radicals can be spin dependent is well
known in the context of the radical pair mechanism (RPM). Less well known, but still well …