Let's start here -- people have been scared of electromagnetic radiation (aka EMF) for a long time. And you can't really blame them; microwave ovens are pretty hard to believe. Wifi even more so. The same device that can "send movies through the air on invisible electromagnetic waves" can't also read my mind and control my thoughts?
The next exit off the Tinfoil Highway, after mind control, is for cancer. Working in Indoor Air Quality and Environmental Health, we get phone calls from time to time about concerns over EMF exposure. People have some symptoms, either physical or mental, and they wonder if something in their environment is causing the problem, and they know they have these magical waves floating all around their home every day. Technically, we can monitor for EMF exposure, there's equipment for it, but chances are the EMF is not your problem. After years and years of using cell phones, we can't seem to get any signal on them causing cancer.
But that's hard to explain to someone who is already convinced. And it puts the environmental consultant in the awkward position of offending a potential client.
But now, we get these new discoveries which are the stuff of conspiracy theory nightmares, only in reverse:
Electromagnetic fields hinder spread of breast cancer, study shows
Mar 2021, phys.org
Electromagnetic fields appear to slow cancer cells' metabolism selectively by changing the electrical fields inside an individual cell.
via Ohio State University: Travis H. Jones et al, Directional Migration of Breast Cancer Cells Hindered by Induced Electric Fields May Be Due to Accompanying Alteration of Metabolic Activity, Bioelectricity (2021). DOI: 10.1089/bioe.2020.0048
Tiny implant cures diabetes in mice without triggering immune response
Jun 2021, phys.org
"The implants floated freely inside the animals, and when we removed them after about six months, the insulin-secreting cells inside the implants still were functioning. And importantly, it is a very robust and safe device."
via Washington University School of Medicine: X. Wang el al., "A nanofibrous encapsulation device for safe delivery of insulin-producing cells to treat type 1 diabetes," Science Translational Medicine (2021). https://stm.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abb4601
Controlling insulin production with a smartwatch
Jun 2021, phys.org
"No naturally occurring molecular system in human cells responds to green light, so we had to build something new."The ETH professor and his colleagues ultimately developed a molecular switch that, once implanted, can be activated by the green light of a smartwatch.The switch is linked to a gene network that the researchers introduced into human cells. Depending on the configuration of this network—in other words, the genes it contains—it can produce insulin or other substances as soon as the cells are exposed to green light. Turning the light off inactivates the switch and halts the process.
via ETH Zurich: Mansouri M, Hussherr M-D, Strittmatter T, Buchmann P, Xue S, Camenisch G, Fussenegger M: Smart-watch-programmed green-light-operated percutaneous control of therapeutic transgenes. Nature Communications, 2021, 7 June; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23572-4
Remote control of blood sugar - Electromagnetic fields treat diabetes in animal models
Oct 2020, phys.org
Exposing diabetic mice to a combination of static electric and magnetic fields for a few hours per day normalizes two major hallmarks of type 2 diabetes. And it works by remote control, and it can be applied in your sleep to normalize your blood sugar for the rest of the day.
And this makes it even better; "The initial finding was pure serendipity." One scientist borrowed another scientist's mice; he was working on EMF exposure, and she was working on blood sugar. Using his mice in her experiment, she found something strange going on. Now we think the EMFs prolong activation of superoxide molecules in the liver, rebalancing the body's response to insulin.
Later, they even treated human liver cells with EMFs, for six hours, and found that the surrogate marker for insulin sensitivity improved.
via Calvin S. Carter et al, Exposure to Static Magnetic and Electric Fields Treats Type 2 Diabetes, Cell Metabolism (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2020.09.012
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