Magnetic Field Effects in Quantum Biology: Beyond the Radical Pair Mechanism

Abstract

The effects of weak magnetic fields on biological systems have become an area of burgeoning research and interest in recent years. Specifically, the Radical Pair Mechanism (RPM) has been quite successful at beginning to explain phenomena such as avian magnetoreception, the magnetosensitivity of lipid peroxidation reactions and other such biological magnetic field effects (MFEs) - but there are still many questions to answer. This thesis addresses such questions, by proposing a new mechanism (D3M) to offer a new perspective on radical spin dynamics, and methods for amplifying biological MFEs.