#172 Bio-electric special: how the electricity inside you shapes your body and your health
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How Do I Know What's Coding for Ion Channels?
In 1823 we started having the very first electrometer so you've got this first crude tool that can actually tell you what's going on right and by the end of the 19th century everything was completely lit up. Cancer cells it seems they have a de novo ion channel that happens that creates spiking activity much like nerve cells normally you know healthy cells don't spike like that but cancer cells do. This is most of a john gauze's theory he's at um imperial college and people are just like I don't want to hear it this is totally wrong and bizarre He sort of hung in there and now it's more and more accepted that there is electrical activity that these
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