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Xiaoting Wu1, Jacques Behmoaras1
1Centre for Biomedical Data Science, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
Trends in Immunology
|July 30, 2026
Abstract:
Homing pigeons' navigation in darkness relies on Earth's magnetic field. However, the underlying mechanism of magnetoreception remains poorly understood. Recently, Lisowski et al. demonstrated that superparamagnetic hepatic macrophages are potential magnetoreceptors that detect and transmit geomagnetic information to support the navigation of pigeons.
