The Bernal Lecture 2004: Are low-frequency electromagnetic fields a health hazard?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1458, 2005, Pages 1223-1230

  Crumpton, Michael J ^a  

^a Scientific Advisory Committee   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental stress responses; Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields; Radical pair mechanism; Scientific uncertainty; Yeast gene expression

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEALTH RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 31344444909     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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