
Dr. Michael Levin: Biological Plasticity, Bioelectricity, and Limb Regeneration
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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Elect Cuticles in Cancer
Electrics are one of the key things that orchestrates multi cellularity in invertebrates, and it's entirely possible that it's doing that in dicti as well. The ion channels on the surface of cells in a tissue form a kind of programming inter facets. In the 19 fifties, the way we program computers was by physically moving wires around. That ta, the hardware, is how we re programm things in the forties and fifties. And my point is that 20 years from now, people will be looking at the molecular medicine of today, which is all about the hardware.
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