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#146 - Meet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of

#146 - Meet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of

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Min Zhao is the UC Davis professor whose lab discovered the first
genes ever found in electrical signalling — proof that every cell
in your body runs on a current, not just your brain. He can
reverse the polarity of a field and watch a living cell
physically turn around and walk the other way.

Expect to learn why every wound in your body generates its own
measurable electric current, how a single postdoc's "failed"
experiment revealed a force that overrides genetics, how
reversing an electric field can make a cell physically turn
around mid-migration, how a damaged potato generates the same
electrical signal that guides wound healing in humans, why Min
stops short of fully agreeing with Michael Levin on whether cells
count as agents, and where the fight between bioelectricity and
genetics currently stands.

Timestamps

0:00:00 Trailer

0:02:20 What Everyone Gets Wrong About Wound Healing

0:07:20 Your Skin Is Secretly Electric (And So Is Everything
Alive)

0:11:09 The 200-Year-Old Discovery Hiding in Every Wound

0:15:19 The Postdoc Result That Changed the Whole Lab

0:19:19 How Do Cells Know Where to Grow? (Five Fingers, Not Six)

0:21:19 The Potato Experiment That Reveals How Infections Start

0:25:24 Reverse the Field, Watch a Cell Turn Around

0:38:10 The Bioelectricity Nobody Taught in Biology Class

0:44:17 Is Bioelectricity More Fundamental Than Genes?

0:45:33 "No Electricity, No Life"

0:49:14 When Electric Fields Override Genetics Entirely

1:03:40 Michael Levin's Xenobots, Debated

1:12:22 Do Cells Have Agency? The Fuzziest Question in Biology

1:15:16 To Be Continued... (Members Get the Rest)

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GS Episodes Mentioned

Michael Levin — Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis,
Platonic Spaces & Xenobots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyM

Philip Ball — Philip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We
Thought": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SseGx0R0fY

Denis Noble — Denis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell
Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqw-DaWVK24

Michael Levin & Earl Miller — Michael Levin & Earl
Miller: Platonic Space of Minds, Bioelectricity, Cell
Intelligence & Neurobots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mU5nN5nlLA

Guest Links

UC Davis Faculty Profile:
https://health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/faculty/zhao.html

Zhao Lab (UC Davis Dermatology):
https://health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/research/lab/zhao.html

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G7-zWBcAAAAJ&hl=en

Neuroengineering at UC Davis:
https://neuroengineering.ucdavis.edu/people/min-zhao-md-phd

UC Davis Profiles (Publications):
https://profiles.ucdavis.edu/min.zhao