Gene Expression Changes in Human Cells After Exposure to Mobile Phone Microwaves

Daniel Remondini, Reetta Nylund, Jukka Reivinen, Florence Poulletier de Gannes, Bernard Veyret, Isabelle Lagroye, Emmanuelle Haro, M. Angeles Trillo, Miriam Capri, Claudio Franceschi, Kathrin Schlatterer, Richard Gminski, Rudolf Fitzner, Rudolf Tauber, Jurgen Schuderer, Niels Kuster, Dariusz Leszczynski, Ferdinando Bersani and Christian Maercker, in Proteomics, Published Online: 28 Jul 2006

Pulsed Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields: Dose-Dependent Effects on Sleep, the Sleep EEG and Cognitive Performance

Sabine J. Regel, Gilberte Tinguely, Jürgen Schuderer, Martin Adam, Niels Kuster, Hans-Peter Landolt, and Peter Achermann, in Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 15, Issue s1, p. 171, September 2006

UMTS Base Station-Like Exposure, Well Being and Cognitive Performance

Sabine J. Regel, Sonja Negovetic, Martin Röösli, Veronica Berdiñas, Jürgen Schuderer, Anke Huss, Urs Lott, Niels Kuster, and Peter Achermann, in Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 114, Number 8, pp. 1270–1275, August 2006

Electro-Optic Fiber Sensor for Amplitude and Phase Detection of Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

Axel Kramer, Peter Müller, Urs Lott, Niels Kuster, and Fin Bomholt in Optics Letters, Volume 31, Issue 16, pp. 2402–2404, July 2006

Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field (ELF-EMF) does not Affect the Expression of α3, α5 and α7 Nicotinic Receptor Subunit Genes in SH-SY5Y Neuroblastoma Cell Line

Ruth Adele Antonini, Roberta Benfante, Cecilia Gotti, Milena Moretti, Niels Kuster, Juergen Schuderer, Francesco Clementi and Diego Fornasari, in Toxicology Letters, Volume 164, Number 3, pp. 191–288, July 2006

Methodology of Detailed Dosimetry and Treatment of Uncertainty and Variations for In Vivo Studies

Niels Kuster, Verónica Berdiñas Torres, Neviana Nikoloski, Michael Frauscher and Wolfgang Kainz, in Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 27, Issue 5, pp. 378–391, July 2006

Do GSM 900MHz Signals Affect Cerebral Blood Circulation? A Near-infrared Spectrophotometry Study

BEMS 2006 Student Awards

IT'IS PhD students Clementine Boutry-Viellard and Sven Kühn receive student awards at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS2006) in Cancun, Mexico

A New 3-D Conformal PEC FDTD Scheme with User-defined Geometric Precision and Derived Stability Criterion

Stefan Benkler, Nicolas Chavannes and Niels Kuster, in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Volume 54, Number 6, pp. 1843–1849, June 2006

ESHO 2006 Student Award

IT'IS PhD student Esra Neufeld received a student award at the 3rd meeting of the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology (ESHO2006) in Berlin, Germany

Effects of Geometry Discretization Aspects on the Numerical Solution of the Bioheat Transfer Equation with the FDTD Technique

Theodoros Samaras, Andreas Christ, and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 51, No. 11, pp. N221–N229, May 2006

Virtual Prototyping Considering Different Usage Patterns

Nicolas Chavannes, Microwave Engineering Europe, June 2006

Analysis of the Accuracy of the Numerical Reflection Coefficient of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method at Planar Material Interfaces

Andreas Christ, Stefan Benkler, Jürg Fröhlich and Niels Kuster, in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp. 264–272, May 2006

Comparisons of Computed Mobile Phone Induced SAR in the SAM Phantom to That in Anatomically Correct Models of the Human Head

Brian B. Beard, Wolfgang Kainz, Teruo Onishi, Takahiro Iyama, Soichi Watanabe, Osamu Fujiwara, Jianqing Wang, Giorgi Bit-Babik, Antonio Faraone, Joe Wiart, Andreas Christ, Niels Kuster, Ae-Kyoung Lee, Hugo Kroeze, Martin Siegbahn, Jafar Keshvari, Houman Abrishamkar, Winfried Simon, Dirk Manteuffel, and Neviana Nikoloski, in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 48, Issue 2, pp. 397–407, May 2006

ROS Release and Hsp70 Expression after Exposure to 1,800 MHz Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields in Primary Human Monocytes and Lymphocytes

M. Lantow, M. Lupke, J. Frahm, M. O. Mattsson, N. Kuster and M. Simko, in Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, Volume 45, Number 1, pp. 55–62, May 2006

The Dependence of Electromagnetic Far-field Absorption on Body Tissue Composition in the Frequency Range from 300 MHz to 6 GHz

Andreas Christ, Anja Klingenböck, Theodoros Samaras, Cristian Goiceanu, and Niels Kuster, in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Volume 54, Number 5, pp. 2188–2195, May 2006

IT'IS Annual Report 2005

The Annual Report 2005 features key figures for 2005 and overviews of selected projects:

Novel Semi-Implicit FDTD Solver Time and Frequency Domain Field Sensor New Challenges in Compliance Testing New Thermo-Solver

Oesch (2006) Thesis

Walter Oesch, “Controlling software for EMF laboratory studies,” PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology, Thesis No. 16346, Zurich, 2006

Benkler (2006) Thesis

Stefan Benkler, “Robust Conformal Subcel l Modeling for Electromagnetic Simulations in Time Domain,” PhD Thesi, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technologys, Thesis No. 16969, Zurich, 2006

Swiss Workshop Focused on Quality in EMF Research

Janet Lathrop, a journalist specializing in RF research, gives a broad and interesting review of the Monte Verità workshop on EMF Health Risk Research organized by the IT'IS Foundation November 2005.

Mobile Phone Affects Cerebral Blood Flow in Humans

Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma (Interphone Study Group, Germany)

Childhood Leukemia and Magnetic Fields in Japan: A Case-control Study of Childhood Leukemia and Residential Power-frequency Magnetic Fields in Japan

Effects of 900 MHz GSM Wireless Communication Signals on DMBA-Induced Mammary Tumors in Rats

Da Yu, Yonghao Shen, Niels Kuster, Yiti Fu, and Huai Chiang, in Radiation Research, Volume 165, Number 2, pp. 174–180, February 2006

EMF Health Risk Research at Monte Verità, Switzerland

The conference summary as well as the presentations of the Monte Verità conference on EMF health risk research are now available on the Monte Verità website (under "results").

Nonuniform Grids, Nonorthogonal Grids, Unstructured Grids, and Subgrids, and Antennas

Nicolas Chavannes and others, in “Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, Third Edition,” Allen Taflove and Susan C. Hagness, Artech House, Inc., Boston, 2005

EMF Health Risk Research: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for the Future

A workshop to bring together the most experienced and independent researchers worldwide to develop a vision towards improving the quality of future research on EMF and health.

Response, Thermal Regulatory Threshold and Thermal Breakdown Threshold of Restrained RF-Exposed Mice at 905 MHz

Sven Ebert, Sang-Jin Eom, Jürgen Schuderer, U. Apostel, Thomas Tillmann, Clemens Dasenbrock and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine & Biology, Volume 50, Number 21, pp. 5203–5215, October 2005

New Study on aging effects of the absorption of electromagnetic radiation in the head

Effects of 1-Week and 6-Week Exposure to GSM/DCS Radiofrequency Radiation on Micronucleus Formation in B6C3F1 Mice

Bernd-D. Görlitz, Meike Müller, Sven Ebert, Hartmut Hecker, Niels Kuster, and Clemens Dasenbrock, in Radiation Research, Volume 164, Number 4 pt 1, pp. 431–439, October 2005