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Magnetism and Magnetobiology: New Undiscovered Horizons?

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Magnetism is a spectrum of physical phenomena involving forces exerted by magnets on other magnets. There are different types of magnetism as well as different sources. We shall not take it in consideration in this chapter. One can find the hierarchy flow chart for magnetism type and go deeper into phenomenology, if interested. However, it is necessary to keep in mind that magnetism and electricity are tightly linked phenomena. One of strong impacts of magnetism upon bioengineering is in biomedical engineering. There is the entire field of studies known as magneto-biology which involves new studies and concepts of magnetic fields produced in, or applied to biological systems as a medical treatment or diagnostic approach.

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Lord Kelvin (1824–1907)

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Pavlovic, M. (2015). Magnetism and Magnetobiology: New Undiscovered Horizons?. In: Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10798-1_22

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