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Nonfiction Labs is engineering proteins that respond to magnetic fields and betting it can change how we treat cancer

Jan 12, 2026

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Two hundred years ago, the strongest magnets on Earth were natural rocks prized as navigational curiosities known as lodestones. After that came electromagnets, permanent alloys, and eventually the “…

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A guest post by

Eryney Marrogi

I'm medical student at the University of Vermont, with experience in biological engineering from working on mosquitoes in George Church's lab at Harvard, AAV for gene therapy at Dyno Therapeutics, and novel biosensors at Caltech.