Statistical Amplification of the Effects of Weak Magnetic Fields in Cellular Translation

Abstract

Overview

This study investigates the statistical amplification effects of weak magnetic fields on cellular translation.

Findings

• Introduction of the idea that intermediate radical pairs with spin-correlated electrons play a critical role in the amino acid addition during protein synthesis.
• Presentation of a mathematical model that highlights changes in the likelihood of synthesis errors correlated with variations in external magnetic fields.
• Demonstration of a high likelihood of errors due to statistical enhancements of low probability errors during local incorporation.

Conclusion

The study supports the conjecture that localized magnetic effects originating in the ribosome may cause random nonspecific biological responses. These findings can be experimentally validated without the need for a long thermal relaxation time of electron spins, directly challenging traditional theories in magnetoreception.