"For a being to be able to gain biotic powers the being in questions need to be subjected to the dust form and survive. Special implants would need to be developed to allow for them to project Mass Effect fields. As for the nature of how it does what it does... We have no clue, magical and regular instruments have revealed nothing abnormal. The current theory on the table is that it partially exists in another universe where physics are different, and by subjecting it to energy it changes the physics within the field to the physics of the other universe." said Black Marble.