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Magnetic bacteria on a diamond plate

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A new approach has been used to image magnetic fields in living cells of magnetotactic bacteria. The technique could be applied to study the dynamics of magnetism in other biological systems. See Letter p.486

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  1. Mihály Pósfai is in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pannonia, 8200 Veszprém, Hungary.,

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  2. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski is in the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons and the Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany.,

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Pósfai, M., Dunin-Borkowski, R. Magnetic bacteria on a diamond plate. Nature 496, 442–443 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/496442a

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