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birds, sea turtles, bats and other animals can sense magnetic fields in different ways, and some of them - with the help of a protein called cryptochrome, uses light to define the smallest geomagnetic differences. Migratory birds fly Drosophila and butterflies rely on the protein to accurately get to where were going.
Surprisingly, scientists have recently discovered that the people in the eyes contained the same protein, through which a magnetic field feel the animals. The question arises: if our eyes is the magnetic sensor is why we buy expensive GPS-navigators and still able to get lost? Scientists are not quite sure.
What we know for sure - if the "pull out" the gene responsible for the magnetic orientation of the fruit fly and replace it with the human cryptochrome, geomagnetic Drosophila vision restored. This, together with colleagues established researcher Steven M. Reppert.
It used to be that people use cryptochrome for maintaining the circadian rhythm of the body, and now many wonder whether this protein to work as an optical compass. Perhaps we better navigators than we think, but we do not use all of our capabilities. Or maybe a long time ago people could navigate by the magnetic field of the Earth, but somehow lost this skill in evolution or our modern world of electromagnetic blocks these abilities.
The most likely and accepted by a majority of explanation is that people can use cryptochrome other than butterflies and fruit flies. Maybe so, but this hypothesis does not stop us in the development of super-powers, like Magneto.
via factroom.ru
birds, sea turtles, bats and other animals can sense magnetic fields in different ways, and some of them - with the help of a protein called cryptochrome, uses light to define the smallest geomagnetic differences. Migratory birds fly Drosophila and butterflies rely on the protein to accurately get to where were going.
Surprisingly, scientists have recently discovered that the people in the eyes contained the same protein, through which a magnetic field feel the animals. The question arises: if our eyes is the magnetic sensor is why we buy expensive GPS-navigators and still able to get lost? Scientists are not quite sure.
What we know for sure - if the "pull out" the gene responsible for the magnetic orientation of the fruit fly and replace it with the human cryptochrome, geomagnetic Drosophila vision restored. This, together with colleagues established researcher Steven M. Reppert.
It used to be that people use cryptochrome for maintaining the circadian rhythm of the body, and now many wonder whether this protein to work as an optical compass. Perhaps we better navigators than we think, but we do not use all of our capabilities. Or maybe a long time ago people could navigate by the magnetic field of the Earth, but somehow lost this skill in evolution or our modern world of electromagnetic blocks these abilities.
The most likely and accepted by a majority of explanation is that people can use cryptochrome other than butterflies and fruit flies. Maybe so, but this hypothesis does not stop us in the development of super-powers, like Magneto.
via factroom.ru
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