How bioelectricity could transform how we think about the body | Sally Adee | TEDxManchester

Sally Adee is an award-winning science and technology writer. For more context on research discussed in this talk, see below:

Here are some things you don’t typically associate with electricity: eggs and sperm, their meeting to conceive, whether your injuries can heal, and cancer. But in the past few decades, new tools and new insights from across a range of scientific disciplines have made it clear that electricity is involved in all of these.

08:30 (clarification): More information on the role genes play in morphology and spatial information can be found here:

We are not talking about wall plug electricity here – this is bioelectricity, and it is generated in your cells. Every one of your 40 trillion cells is a little battery – and their voltage is more relevant in your biological processes than you probably ever realised.

People are starting to find out how to manipulate these tiny batteries in ways that could revolutionize the way we comprehend and treat our most common maladies.

Sally Adee spent ten years as a technology features editor at New Scientist and IEEE Spectrum magazine. She has also written for the New York Times, BBC Future, Quartz and The Economist.

[jlgombert]

What I really like about this lady presentation, is that she renders/vulgarise all what Michael Levin says in his various interviews available on Youtube, more comprehensible and therefore more interesting to the masses of common people interested in the latest discoveries/breakthroughs in Biology in less than 20mn.
Kudos!

[hosoiarchives]

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2:50 starts
4:21 patch clamp
4:40 ion channels
5:44 cell voltages
7:08 cells and electric fields
9:05 instruments
10:18 tadpole face

[lalmamachinzah]

I'm reading your book, "We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, And What The Future Holds" and I have got an idea for future uses, your book confirms my thoughts on electric work as humans.

[andrewk]

You absolutely should invite Michael Levin as well for this topic, he's a great scientist and presenter

[funnytv-]

“You are an ocean of knowledge, hidden in a dew drop.“

Just around the corner of your thoughts, something amazing is waiting, just out of sight. Something valuable is yours for the discovery. The only way to find it is by entering this deeper state of mind.

Choose a time to come out of this reverie. Write it down. Til then, quiet the world outside for a little while. Connect to your deep work awaiting within.

[roguedogx]

7:08 wait. So does that means all one would need to do to kill cancer cells is make a drug with a slightly negative ion charge?

Because then the drug should only attack cancers cells because they are the only cells that would absorb the drug.

[weinerdog]

Glad to see this sort of information reaching a larger audience.

[yogeshkad]

Thank you for your contribution I am very excited

[aada]

Robert O. Becker "The Body Electric" written in 1985. And what about acupucture: the lifeforce 'chi' is electricity, which flows through the meridians, formed by the connective tissue. Yin and Yang are plus and minus (or the other way around). To make things weird: electricity exists here, in space, but at the same time in counter-space (Eric Dollard).

[IamtheFool]

Everything is an electrical circuit in a field. Chemistry, physics, etc. all follow this principle. It is ignored mostly because we fail to see that relative cycles hide this underlying reality.

[marcobritalian]

This could potentially be very exciting and the applications could be limitless. It could (hopefully) help people with genetic disorders or non-surgical plastic surgery just to think of a few.

[Rene-uzeb]

Ok I find it weird that nobody brings up ethical concerns with this kind of experimentation and I feel Levin is making all these speeches to test the waters.

[mrtienphysics]

She has a book
Animal Electricity: How We Learned That the Body and Brain Are Electric Machines

[bukurie]

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[kevinchan]

As she said electricity grip was discovered in 19 century through observation of human muscle and nerves. Why western scientists don’t use nature to develop science rather than using so called “scientific method” to alter nature.

[kentuckyrain]

Włodzimierz Sedlak was the father of bioelectronics. He coined the term "bioplasma".

[TennesseeZee]

Especially since they just force 💉most of the world with nanotechnology.

[yaasikasa]

I am going to use my funny bone at the end of my humorous to power my home. South Africa is in darkness!

[thefreshest]

How much does DNA have a say in the ability to produce or guide bio electricity?

[cadet]

Please....
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