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Cells Use ‘Bioelectricity’ To Coordinate and Make Group Decisions | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)

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“People just kind of relegated [bioelectricity] to ‘This is just neurons.’ No — it’s all of our bodies,” said study author Jody Rosenblatt, an epithelial cell biologist at King’s College London and the Francis Crick Institute. “There are electrical currents going through your body all the time, and they’re doing things.”

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Fascinating.

The epithelial tissues that make up skin and line organs, blood vessels, and body cavities quietly burn about 25% of their available energy to maintain membrane voltages between minus 30 and minus 50 millivolts.