SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 18th, 2025
#pattern #eastward-shift #Mississippi #Tennessee #bioelectricity #epithelial # microelectrode #calcium #AI #age-related #Biobank #saliency #RNS #Wearable-LLM #PTSD #EEG #Observatory #hydrothermal #magma #steam
I only heard of Michael Levin 2 years ago but turns out he was at it on youtube 9 years before that
For curiosity's sake, anybody has critics about Michael Levin's approach ?
Italian physician, physicist, biologist Luigi Galvani was born #OTD in 1737.
In 1780, Galvani discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. Galvani's report of his investigations were mentioned specifically by Mary Shelley as part of the summer reading list leading up to an ad hoc ghost story contest on a rainy day in Switzerland—and the resultant novel Frankenstein—and its reanimated construct.
Power of #microbes: Utilization of improvised #microbial #FuelCell (IMFC) as an interdisciplinary #learning activity in #teaching #bioelectricity:
https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00146-23
#DIYbio #lab #instruments #MINT #STEM #education #OpenSource #school
How #bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs with #MichaelLevin (Ep. 112)
#Biology #Science #RegenerativeMedicine
https://news.uchicago.edu/how-bioelectricity-could-regrow-limbs-and-organs
a good talk with @drmichaellevin
and joschua bach ,,
Why is the competency of the planaria so great? from the talk it seems that the competency mechanism is bioeletric patterns that are coherent across hosts ? levin seems to imply some connection between strong competency arising out of wild genomes.. is that purely emergent or does the planaria have specific machinery other animals dont have? or .. am i mistaken :)
Pacemakers Powered by Light Could Revolutionize Heart Disease Treatment
https://www.sciencealert.com/pacemakers-powered-by-light-could-revolutionize-heart-disease-treatment #health #HeartDisease #treatment #pacemakers #leadless #flexible #light #bioelectricity
Thinking levin's lab was already showing insane ideas back in 2019
https://now.tufts.edu/2019/04/29/scientists-unlock-new-role-nervous-system-regeneration
The implications are staggering.
#biology #intelligence #bioelectricity
Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems--Simple Cells Can Do It | Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brains-are-not-required-when-it-comes-to-thinking-and-solving-problems-simple-cells-can-do-it/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome
You may be familiar with the idea of our body’s biome – the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientific understanding: discover your body’s electrome. Every cell in our bodies – bones, skin, nerves, muscle – has a voltage, like a tiny battery.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#body
#electricity
#electrome
#bioelectricity
#TIL: Young children (up until the age of about 7 - 11) can regenerate their fingertips.
This is from "We Are Electric" by Sally Adee, which is all about the body's bioelectric code. Apparently electrical fields and electrical charges are the software to the hardware that is our DNA.
The fingertip regeneration was discovered by researchers investigating how salamanders regenerate limbs. Of course it's not something you can easily test, but there are enough people who grew up without easy access to medical care that this is a known fact.
Shaping #Brain #Recovery Using #Bioelectricity;
#Scientists are decoding how electrically stimulating #transplanted #stemcells helps heal the #injuredbrain.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news/shaping-brain-recovery-using-bioelectricity-71252
New paper: Sofia Masuelli, Sebastian Real, Patrick McMillen, Madeleine Oudin, Maria Roque, and I: #bioelectricity, #cancer, and #leftrightasymmetry
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/13/11121
"The Yin and Yang of Breast Cancer: Ion Channels as Determinants of Left–Right Functional Differences"
Check @drmichaellevin publications on #bioelectricity with planaria flatworm self-reconstruct from parts experiments!
also with such caveats:
»It is an open question as to whether cells are truly universal constructors and could be coaxed to build any desired morphology, once the mapping between bioelectric states and anatomical outcomes is fully understood.«
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00223-3#secsectitle0040
A new #bioelectricity resource from the inimitable Alexis Pietak (https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/alexis-pietak-ph-d/): "Calculion" -
https://calculion.streamlit.app/
for calculating cell bioelectric states. Much more realistic (accurate) than typical Goldman equation simulators online.
Explanatory video: https://youtu.be/mNPHiRcG_Hk
Btw, more of various software at:
https://drmichaellevin.org/resources/software.html
Turning vegetable #oil industry waste into power: Electrode modification improves #wastewater treatment.
#microbes #fuel_cell #bioremediation #bioelectricity
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-vegetable-oil-industry-power-electrode.html
