
Dr. Michael Levin: Biological Plasticity, Bioelectricity, and Limb Regeneration
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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How Ore Cells Generate Electricity?
In your nervous system, and in your brain, you've got a network of cells that we all know communicate electrically. These norons didn't appear out of nowhere. They basically speed optimized things that cells were doing long before muscle and nerve appeared. And ultimately, what evolution did is pivot again and use those exact same tricks to let you think about movements in three dimensional space and end in terms of canonical behavior. So it's, it's tha thatat it works basically just like electricity in the brain, which which want.
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