Michael Levin

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Michael Levin: Bioelectric Signals That Reprogram Living Organisms · 21 Mar 2025 podcast

That's it.

And so at this point, uh I have to do a disclosure because David Kaplan and I have a company called Morphoceuticals where uh we are trying to push this.

forward uh to uh to biomedical use is such that eventually uh so so now we're we're we're trying this in mammals and so eventually you will have these wearable bioreactors, uh not just for the limbs, but potentially for all organs that uh would uh provide the the correct um

uh uh bioelectrical uh uh payload in terms of ion channel drugs.

So uh um that that would then that would then trigger trigger the growth.

Not trying to control every aspect of it because you have no idea how to do that, but but to to to to provide a a trigger stimulus.

And the the final thing that that I want to show you is the ability to induce novel organs, just to kind of nail nail the idea that that what we're doing here is reprogramming the uh the pattern memories of these cells.

Uh I showed you I showed you that little that little eye spot in the electric face.

And uh we wondered what would happen if we reproduced that same pattern somewhere else.

So what you can do is inject into this early embryo RNA encoding a particular ion channel that uh produces uh a little f a little pattern of of particular voltage, and sure enough, those cells get the message and they build an eye.

Okay, on in this case on the gut.

These uh these eyes have all the same layers right in the lens, optic nerve, all the all the same stuff.

And and just no notice notice what this means.

First of all, uh it means that bioelectrics, of course, as I've shown you in these other examples, is instructive.

It's instructive at the organ level.

We did not have to say which genes to turn on.

We didn't have to tell the stem cells what to do.

We found a high-level subroutine call that says build an eye here.

Okay.

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