IIT Bombay alumnus wins 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for excellence in research and undergraduate teaching.

Mustafa Djamgoz’s interest in bioelectricity began with the first-hand experience of electricity coursing through his own biology. As a teenager growing up on the island of Cyprus, Djamgoz and a ...

In the summer of 1986, futuristic magnetic trains and life-size robots drew a teenaged Michael Levin to the Vancouver World’s Expo. But what changed his life was an obscure used book he found on the ...

Senescence is a process in which a cell ages and stops dividing but does not die. In keratinocytes, or skin cells, senescence is marked by depolarization of membrane potential (Vmem), the electrical ...

Biofuels such as ethanol offer an alternative to petroleum for powering our cars, but growing energy crops to produce them can compete with food crops for farmland, and clearing forests to expand ...

The tiny tadpole embryo looked like a bean. One day old, it didn’t even have a heart yet. The researcher in a white coat and gloves who hovered over it made a precise surgical incision where its head ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Developmental biologist Michael Levin and colleagues at ...

A study reveals that Salmonella uses gut bioelectricity to navigate and invade the body, potentially opening new doors for understanding and treating chronic gut diseases. Salmonella uses bioelectric ...

MEDFORD, Mass. — Imagine the earliest possible snapshot of yourself, and it would look something like this: a single cell in the primordial soup of the fallopian tube, preparing to assemble itself ...

Recently, Paul George, an assistant professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University, and his team applied insights from the field of developmental bioelectricity to regenerate ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A new study in Science shows the best way to maximize “miles per acre” from biomass ...