Bioelectricity
Every cell has a voltage across its membrane, and cells link into electrical networks through gap junctions. Levin's lab treats these networks as the body's medium for storing and acting on anatomical goals — the same hardware brains use, but much older. The lab builds tools to read and rewrite these patterns, which is why regeneration and cancer reprogramming become engineering questions rather than genetic ones.
Videos on this topic (newest first)
- 2026-10-26 — Perturbing Complex Networks (Debanik Bhattacharjee (postdoc, Hebrew University), guest talk with discussion)
- 2026-10-09 — Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: Communicating with Unconventional Minds (Michael Levin)
- 2026-09-22 — Life, Machines, and a Foundation for Synthbiosis (Michael Levin)
- 2026-09-21 — Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence (Michael Levin)
- 2026-09-03 — Conversation #1 with Diego Bohórquez and Mijail D. Serruya: How Information Moves Levels in Bodies (Michael Levin, Diego Bohórquez, Mijail D. Serruya)