{"id":3738,"date":"2021-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2021\/03\/16\/from-nanotech-to-living-sensors-unraveling-the-spin-physics-of-biosensing-at-the-nanoscale\/"},"modified":"2021-03-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:00:00","slug":"from-nanotech-to-living-sensors-unraveling-the-spin-physics-of-biosensing-at-the-nanoscale","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/from-nanotech-to-living-sensors-unraveling-the-spin-physics-of-biosensing-at-the-nanoscale\/","title":{"rendered":"From Nanotech to Living Sensors: Unraveling the Spin Physics of Biosensing at the Nanoscale"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-652.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-652.png\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-652.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Clarice Aiello<\/p>\n<p>Substantial <em>in vitro<\/em> and physiological experimental results suggest that similar coherent spin<br \/>physics might underlie phenomena as varied as the biosensing of magnetic fields in animal<br \/>navigation and the magnetosensitivity of metabolic reactions related to oxidative stress in<br \/>cells. If this is correct, organisms might behave, for a short time, as &ldquo;living quantum sensors&rdquo;<br \/>and might be studied and controlled using quantum sensing techniques developed for<br \/>technological sensors. I will outline our approach towards performing coherent quantum<br \/>measurements and control on proteins, cells and organisms in order to understand how they<br \/>interact with their environment, and how physiology is regulated by such interactions. Can<br \/>coherent spin physics be established &mdash; or refuted! &mdash; to account for physiologically relevant<br \/>biosensing phenomena, and be manipulated to technological and therapeutic advantage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3738","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}