The Quantum Biology Institute launches

Launch is concomitant with first research result

The Quantum Biology Institute, a non-profit institute located in Los Angeles, has launched with the announcement of its first research result: the detection of weak magnetic field effects in biology.

The research program of the Quantum Biology Institute is publicly available and found at the Quantum Biology Roadmap.

The development of tadpoles is accelerated in the absence of Earth's tiny magnetic field

Despite decades of reports of weak magnetic field effects in biology across the tree of life and on a broad range of cell types, the evidence to date remains met with skepticism. To remedy this, researchers at the Quantum Biology Institute unveiled open-data, large-scale, and varied morphological evidence that Xenopus laevis frog embryo development is accelerated in a well-engineered, environmentally-calibrated hypomagnetic field of less than 1 nT. For comparison, Earth's magnetic field is approximately 50,000 nT.

As no definitive biophysical mechanism has been identified to account for the occurrence of the effect, the study raises the question of which mechanism provides the most plausible explanation. How that question is answered may have implications in a variety of fields, including human health, behavioral ecology, and space exploration.

The authors believe the most probable explanation includes quantum effects inside cells, and further experimentation will be necessary to unambiguously prove or refute this hypothesis.