Effects of radiofrequency identifiers in embryos and pupae of Drosophila melanogaster. David A. Lavan^1,2,5, Luis Moreno², Rubén E. Acosta¹, Miguel Diaz⁵, Marcos Moroto³, Ricardo Yauri¹, Roxana Moran¹, Olga Bracamonte², Julio Valdivia-Silva⁴, Daniel Diaz¹. 1) National Institute Research of Telecommunications Training - INICTEL-UNI, Av. San Luis 1771, Lima 41, Peru; 2) Cytogenetics Laboratory, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Av. University s/n, Lima 1, Peru; 3) Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Av. Morcillo 4 Madrid 28029, Spain; 4) Biotechnology and Space Medicine - NASA Ames Research Center, Build. N245 M/S:245-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA; 5) Central Therapy Magnetic Field, International Institute of the Cancer and Pain; Av. Montero Rosas nº 1141 Lima 1, Peru.

   In the last decade the wireless communications into a broad range of intelligent electronic devices are becoming to be an important key in the progress of different industrial and social areas, including biomedical applications, where ubiquitous sensor networks and RFID identifiers tags have a faster development than the past. In Peru, the technological advances in wireless communication systems have so far been developing the biomedical field due to the fear that exists in the effects that radiofrequency could lead in cells and tissues. Indeed, few studies have shown some non thermal effects of radiofrequencies on the integrity of the protein structure, levels of gene expression, and development In our laboratory at INICTEL has been developed a new type of RFID device that allow a rapid access and storage of information in a database which could be very useful to several biomedical applications. In this matter, the study of RFID effects on biological systems should be considered. In this work, we conducted two studies using Drosophila melanogaster flies as a biological system exposed to RFID devices. The first one compared the growth curve of flies exposed 22 hours at a frequency of 13.5 MHz versus non-exposed organisms since their embryonic stage. The other study analyzed mRNA expression profiles of the genes: G1 to G6, which are highly expressed during embryonic, larval, and puparia stages, under the same RFID exposition.