From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Sat Feb 01 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: jbarnes Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: Asking for help Date: 2 Feb 1997 15:06:04 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 5 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <32F52421.1F79@glasnet.ru> Reply-To: jbarnes@glasnet.ru NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Please could you inform me about the Word Congress on Magnetobiology which will be held in June or Julay this summer in Italy and scientifis school for newcomers. Thanks a lot. Oxana. From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Sun Feb 02 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: hwabnig@netway.at (Helmut Wabnig) Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: Re: emf shielding Date: 3 Feb 1997 11:42:03 -0800 Organization: NETWAY AG Lines: 25 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <32f73bee.1379442@news.netway.at> References: <5cnr3q$guh@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net On 29 Jan 1997 07:41:46 -0800, rice7559 wrote: >Are there products available to effectively shield from emf? I have >found on the internet a " Cybercap" (baseball cap style), aprons, other >clothing, and also a magnetic shielding foil...all are relatively >expensive, and I wonder if they really work? (lessemf.com) > >Application I am particularly interested in is for sewing machine oper- >ators, who must hold their head low, very near the machine while sewing. >My sister is a seamstress, and is very worried about this now, after >seeing a newspaper account stating that her occupation recieves more >intense exposure than just about anyone else. > >Have you guys done any testing along these lines, as to what forms of >shielding are effective? If this is not really in your field, perhaps >you could refer me to a more appropriate source? > > The main source will be the motor with its magnetic field. The lamp in front, perhaps too if it is a flourescent lamp. Come to the emf-list... wabi From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Mon Feb 03 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: holson@california.com (Howard Olson) Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: Re: EMF's and their affect on plants Date: 4 Feb 1997 06:23:52 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 36 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <32f6c7b4.0@seashell.california.com> References: <32F65F70.3768@paonline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Safko's wrote: >------------58F75FFF51631 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >I am doing a science fair project on the affect of emf's on plants. Can >someone send me information on this topic? Any help would be >appreciated! >Thanks!!! >------------58F75FFF51631 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > >

I am doing a science fair project on the affect of emf's on plants. >Can someone send me information on this topic? Any help would be appreciated!

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> > >------------58F75FFF51631-- You might be able to correlate any effects you observe with the Iron content in xylem and/or phloem. Titration for iron should be relatively simple and you would have an understandable effect.... Howard From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Tue Feb 04 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: liboff@oakland.edu (A.R. Liboff) Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: emf effects on plants Date: 5 Feb 1997 08:00:59 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 67 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199702051530.KAA25429@cliff.acs.oakland.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Our group has investigated the response of simple plants to ion cyclotron resonance combinations of AC and DC magnetic fields. References to this work include: Smith, McLeod and Liboff, Bioelectricity and Bioenergetics 32:67, 1993; Bioelectricity and Bioenergetics 38: 161, 1995. Regling et al successfully replicated this work (on radishes), presenting an abstract at the 1995 FASEB meeting in Atlanta. Their work either has or will appear in print shortly, but I do not know the journal. Another successful replication of our work was carried out by Davies (Bioelectromagnetics 17:154, 1996).I have been informed that still another group has been unable to replicate our findings. In unpublished studies we have also observed large changes in growth in orchid mericlones. However it is clear that some care must be taken in carefully maintaining the specific cyclotron resonance field combination. The ion cyclotron resonance approach uses an AC/DC parallel field combination where the ratio of the radial frequency of the AC field to the DC intensity is equal to the charge-to-mass ratio of unhydrated ions such as Ca2+, Mg2+, and K+. This approach has been used in dozens of experiments involving animal behavior and cell culture, often with significant changes. As with the plant experiments there have been more positive experiments than negatives. It is likely that the cell signaling apparatus is stimulated under exposure to these ion cyclotron resonance magnetic exposures. (There are similar aspects to cell signaling in both plants and in animals). It is usual to set the resonant field combination to the charge-to-mass ratio of the calcium ion, although there are interesting effects for other ionic charge-to-mass ratios. This type of experiment may be a bit more than can be handled in a science fair project, since there are some constraints on the quality of equipment. Another, perhaps simpler approach might be to try using larger (say 1mT or greater) magnetic fields in an attempt to induct electric currents into the plant. The person whose references you should look for is W. Gensler, for example in Ann NY Acad Sci 238:280, 1974. Although Gensler and others attached electrodes directly to the plants, it is reasonable to assume that the same thing could be accomplished by means of noninvasive magnetic induction. One such experiment that I always wanted to do was to grow plants in a large, not-too-uniform, DC magnetic field and make the leaves move using a rotating fan m few meters away. This was suggested to me many years ago by Mother Nature, when I first observed the action of leaf movement in quaking aspens in Colorado, Other trees and shrubs also respond to the wind, moving their leaves in neat ways, although less than aspen. The geomagnetic field seems too weak to make a case for induced currents, and I am sure that there are other good biological reasons why leaves were designed to oscillate as they do, reasons not involving Faraday induction, but the observation is still an interesting one. If you cannot find a big electromagnet and its power supply, then maybe you could be creative in using a bunch of the small, high-coercive force neodymium/iron/boron magnets. They are readily avilable in physics teaching environments, and are relatively inexpensive. Most important, I do not know of anyone else who has ever attempted this experiment. Good luck! A.R. Liboff Department of Physics Oakland university (810) 370-3412 liboff@oakland.edu . From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Fri Feb 07 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: woodley@travel-net.com (Richard W. Woodley) Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: Bridlewood EMFs Information Service Date: 8 Feb 1997 15:42:42 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 16 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199702070033.TAA24907@mail.travel-net.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The Bridlewood Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Information service has completed its conversion to a full HTML website. We have also just uploaded another series of revisions to most of the files. Check out the new site at "www.ncf.carleton.ca/bridlewood-emfinfo/". ********************* Richard W. Woodley ********************* woodley@travel-net.com *********** www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ab190/ -------------------------------------------------------------- National Capital Freenet Information Provider Bridlewood Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) Information Service www.ncf.carleton.ca/bridlewood-emfinfo/ From owner-emf-bio@net.bio.net Wed Feb 12 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Allan Frey Newsgroups: bionet.emf-bio Subject: Cell phones: headaches? Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:27:38 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 71 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: afrey@uu.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <330218A6.5D70@uu.net> Reply-To: afrey@UU.NET NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net On Friday, February 7th, there was a Bioelectromagnetic Society Workshop in Rockville, MD. (outside Washington, DC.) entitled "Physical characteristics and possible biological effects of microwaves applied in wireless communication". I was one of the speakers. I presented a paper entitled "Headaches from cell phones: are they real?" Following is a summary of my talk. Allan Headaches from cell phones: are they real? Allan H. Frey Randomline, Inc. Potomac, MD. afrey@uu.net I stated that I believe that the reported headaches from cell phone usage is a real phenomena. I presented several lines of evidence that supports this conclusion. First, I noted that there are numerous reports of headaches and that a recent survey indicated that digital phones are implicated more than analog phones. I noted the transmitting frequencies of the various cell phone systems, their power outputs and their modulation characteristics. I showed that these are characteristics that were found many years ago to be in the optimal band for producing various effects in the head. I reviewed the data on the microwave hearing effect that I discovered and reported on in the 1960's, an effect that is optimal at what is now the cell phone frequencies. I pointed out that during the microwave hearing research my human subjects reported that they were getting headaches. I also found that I was getting headaches when I was in the em field; and I don't get headaches. I explored the headache phenomena to determine if it was real. I then reported the occurrence of headaches at various meetings and in a published paper in the 1960's. The headache finding led me to decide to no longer use human subjects for microwave hearing research. A second line of evidence that I discussed was a series of blood-brain-barrier experiments that I started and reported on in the 1970's. The blood-brain-barrier is a critical regulatory interface that controls what gets into the brain from the blood. I found, and others subsequently found, that em energy with characteristics similar to present day cell phone emissions resulted in the breakdown of the blood-brain-barrier. Recent headache research indicates that the blood-brain-barrier may be involved in headaches. A third line of evidence that I discussed was a series of experiments that I carried out, starting in the early 1970's, in which I showed that em energy with characteristics similar to present day cell phone emissions apparently influenced brain chemistry. My experiments indicated that the dopamine and opiate systems of the brain were particularly involved. Others, subsequently, also found brain chemistry changes with exposure to em energy. Thus, I concluded that cell phone frequencies and modulation are in a band that is one of the more significant biologically. I noted that the reports of headaches have a biological basis in theory and in data that was gathered 20-30 years ago. I also noted that the headaches reported may be only the most obvious indicator of a biological effect. Probably, though, only certain specific frequencies and modulations are of consequence biologically. -- Allan H. Frey email afrey@uunet.uu.net 11049 Seven Hill Lane voice 301.299.5181 Potomac, MD 20854, USA