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Interaction of Radio Frequency and LAMBDA-DNA
Mary Pearson1, Jacob Parrow, Benjamin Braaten
1North Dakota State University.
Abstract:
With the prevalence of wireless radio frequency (RF) devices, interest is growing to more fully understand the effect of RF on biological tissue. This research explores how ?DNA interacts with RF energy. By sweeping a radio frequency range from 1 GHz to 8.5 GHz we hope to observe if specific frequencies show significantly elevated RF energy-?DNA interaction (e.g. either absorbed and/or reflected). Our procedure is as follows: 1) Set up RF equipment (horn antennas and network analyzer), 2) vary frequency from 1- 8.5GHz at a RF power level of 0 dBm, 3) vary same frequency sweep with buffer in the cell culture wells, and next with DNA and buffer in the cell-culture wells, and 4) the frequency sweep was repeated 100 times with a duration of 1.0 second per sweep. The results indicate regions of RF- ?DNA interaction around 3 and 3.5 GHz.
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