Biofuels such as ethanol offer an alternative to petroleum for powering our cars, but growing energy crops to produce them can compete with food crops for farmland, and clearing forests to expand ...

May 20, 2009 Running vehicles on biofuels such as ethanol reduces CO2 emissions and offers a way to lessen the world's reliance on oil. While this sounds great from an environmental perspective, the ...

A recent article in Advanced Functional Materials explored the use of MXene-based nanozymes for bioelectricity applications in cancer therapy. MXenes are a class of two-dimensional transition metal ...

Many biological processes are regulated by electricity-from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and out of cells. A new study by Scripps Research scientists reveals a ...

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A study reveals that Salmonella uses gut bioelectricity to navigate and invade the body, potentially opening new doors for understanding and treating chronic gut diseases. Salmonella uses bioelectric ...

Changing natural electrical signaling in non-neural cells improves innate immune response to bacterial infections and injury. Tadpoles that received therapeutics, including those used in humans for ...

Recently, Paul George, an assistant professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University, and his team applied insights from the field of developmental bioelectricity to regenerate ...

Energy from crops such as corn or switchgrass will take your car a lot further if the vehicle is electric, a new study shows. "What we found is that if you burn this biomass to make electricity to ...

In the summer of 1986, futuristic magnetic trains and life-size robots drew a teenaged Michael Levin to the Vancouver World’s Expo. But what changed his life was an obscure used book he found on the ...