A magnetic protein compass ?
Abstract
Qin et al. (A magnetic protein compass, Nature Materials 15, 217-226, 2016) claim that \"MagR is the first known protein that carries an intrinsic magnetic moment at ambient temperature\". We show here that the claim must, unfortunately, be fundamentally wrong.
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