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Cells lining your skin and organs can generate electricity when injured − potentially opening new doors to treating wounds

  • Written by Sun-Min Yu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst
Cells lining your skin and organs can generate electricity when injured − potentially opening new doors to treating woundsYour skin cells can generate electricity when wounded.Torsten Wittmann, University of California, San Francisco/NIH via Flickr, CC BY-NC

Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that runs through your body to perform various functions. One such example of this bioelectricity is the nerve signals that power thoughts in your brain....

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