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Cancer as Bioelectric Breakdown

Cancer as Bioelectric Breakdown

Series: Bioelectric Code | Part: 6 of 7 Primary Tag: FRONTIER SCIENCE Keywords: cancer, bioelectricity, depolarization, tumor microenvironment, ion channels, oncology Cancer cells don't just grow wrong. They communicate wrong. The standard narrative frames cancer as genetic chaos: mutations accumulate, oncogenes activate, tumor suppressors fail, cells proliferate without restraint.

Ion Channels and Gap Junctions: The Bioelectric Hardware

Ion Channels and Gap Junctions: The Bioelectric Hardware

Series: Bioelectric Code | Part: 3 of 7 Primary Tag: FRONTIER SCIENCE Keywords: ion channels, gap junctions, connexins, bioelectric signaling, cell communication The bioelectric code is written by molecules. Ion channels and gap junctions are the hardware—the proteins that create and transmit electrical signals across cells and tissues. Understanding this

Xenobots and Anthrobots: Biological Robots

Xenobots and Anthrobots: Biological Robots

In 2020, researchers announced they had created the first living robots. Not robots made of metal and silicon. Robots made of frog cells. They called them xenobots, after Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog whose skin cells they used. The cells were scraped from frog embryos, arranged into novel configurations