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🇩🇪 diagnose:funk: Mobile Phone Research at a Turning Point as New Studies Decode Non-Thermal Mechanisms

July 22, 2026 (EMFS)
Jul 20, 2026 (original)
Source: diagnose:funk
Source category: Advocacy/NGO
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diagnose:funk reports: The German environmental and consumer protection NGO says mobile phone research has reached a turning point, pointing to a new methodologically rigorous study from South Korea's Dongguk University published in Cell and a detailed review by the universities of Athens and Kyiv on the non-thermal biological mechanism of mobile phone radiation. The group says the studies describe a voltage-gated calcium channel pathway through which low-frequency pulsed and modulated signals can influence gene expression, and argues the current thermal-only exposure limit no longer reflects the state of biological research.
Note: diagnose:funk is a German environmental and consumer-protection NGO focused on wireless radiation. This item presents the organisation's interpretation of newly published studies.

Quotes (our translation)

"Mobile phone research has taken a decisive developmental step."

[original: "Die Mobilfunkforschung hat einen entscheidenden Entwicklungsschritt vollzogen"]

— Peter Hensinger, Deputy Chair of diagnose:funk and Head of the Science Division

"The new studies show not only biological effects but also provide coherent explanations of how they arise."

[original: "Die neuen Studien zeigen nicht nur biologische Effekte, sondern liefern schlüssige Erklärungen ihrer Entstehung."]

— Peter Hensinger, Deputy Chair of diagnose:funk and Head of the Science Division

"This body of research shows that it is untenable and irresponsible when the Federal Office for Radiation Protection and the German government claim there is no evidence of health-damaging effects of mobile phone radiation below the exposure limit."

[original: "Diese Forschungslage zeigt, dass es unhaltbar und verantwortungslos ist, wenn das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz und die Bundesregierung behaupten, es gäbe keine Belege für gesundheitsschädliche Auswirkungen von Mobilfunkstrahlung unterhalb des Grenzwerts."]

— Peter Hensinger, Deputy Chair of diagnose:funk and Head of the Science Division

Source

Mobilfunkforschung an Wendepunkt: Neue Studien entschlüsseln Wirkmechanismen diagnose-funk.org

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