Cancer as Bioelectric Breakdown
Genetic mutations don't tell the whole story of cancer. A growing body of evidence points to bioelectric breakdown — changes in membrane voltage that corrupt a cell's identity and send it rogue.
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Ion Channels and Gap Junctions: The Bioelectric Hardware
Before brains existed, cells were already talking electrically. Ion channels gate charged ions across membranes; gap junctions let cells share electrical state directly — the hardware layer of bioelectric intelligence.
Xenobots and Anthrobots: Biological Robots
Xenobots proved the concept: take cells, let evolution design a body plan, get a living machine with no evolutionary precedent. Anthrobots extended this with human cells that self-assemble and have repaired scratched neurons in lab cultures. Biologically-based robotics is a genuinely new field.