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

By Sun-Min Yu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst
Steve Granick, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst

Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But researchers discovered they can produce electrical signals like neurons.

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