Sentences with word «bioelectricity»

Potassium channels, present in the cells of virtually living organisms, are core components in bioelectricity generation and cellular communication.

Potassium channels, present in the cells of virtually all living organisms, are core components in bioelectricity generation and cellular communication.

Of course, all our thoughts, sensations and actions arise from bioelectricity generated by neurons and transmitted through complex neural circuits inside our skull.

Levin now sees bioelectricity as a sort of master control, one that can turn on a complex cascade of genetic and biochemical events resulting in an eye or a tail.

To take just one example: a small truck powered by bioelectricity could travel almost 15,000 city and highway miles (24,000 kilometers) compared with just 8,000 comparable miles (13,000 kilometers) for an internal combustion equivalent.

Zhao, who's now a professor at the University of California, Davis, sees bioelectricity as an orchestrator of complicated events, such as the healing of an injury.

Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi is one of the co-authors of «Self - sustaining, solar - driven bioelectricity generation in micro-sized microbial fuel cell using co-culture of heterotrophic and photosynthetic bacteria.»

The UC Davis bioelectricity laboratory is one of a very few able to make such sensitive measurements of electric fields in living tissue.

But those advances only made bioelectricity research more pressing by calling attention to what those fields couldn't adequately explain.

Scientists say bioelectricity is the body's master control.

According to Campbell, the primary reason bioelectricity came out looking so much better is that electric engines are far more efficient than are internal combustion engines.

On average, looking at a wide variety of source crops (corn kernels to switchgrass), ways to convert plants to energy, and vehicle sizes (ranging from compact cars to SUVs), bioelectricity delivered 56 percent more energy for transportation per acre, even including the fact that making ethanol produces other useful products, such as cattle feed.

Ten years ago, convinced that bioelectricity plays an important role in development, Levin and his colleagues systematically altered the number of ion channels in cells in different parts of a frog embryo.

In the framework of interdisciplinary research project «Innovative microbial fuel cells for sustainable production of bioelectricity» (MicrobElas) KTU researchers have developed a MFC prototype, which uses modified graphite felt as an anode.

Published in the online version of Science by scientists at the University of California - Merced, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution, the study — «Greater Transportation Energy and GHG Offsets from Bioelectricity Than Ethanol» — recommends that the crops be grown on marginal agricultural land or abandoned agricultural lands, to prevent cutting into food crops for people.

However, much of this work is still in its nascent stages,» said Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi, who is one of the co-authors of «Self - sustaining, solar - driven bioelectricity generation in micro-sized microbial fuel cell using co-culture of heterotrophic and photosynthetic bacteria,» along with PhD candidate Lin Liu.

For example, a small SUV powered by bioelectricity could travel nearly 14,000 highway miles on the net energy produced from an acre of switchgrass, while a comparable internal combustion vehicle could only travel about 9,000 miles on the highway.

It's all rooted in bioelectricity.

Biologist Michael Levin wants to use bioelectricity to do just that

Encompassing phenomena ranging from tissue regeneration to cancer metastasis, bioelectricity has been emerging for a very long time.

His bolt of insight, published in 2006, invigorated an emerging field known as bioelectricity.

Bioelectricity was the clear winner.

Of course, such a bioelectricity future for transportation would also rely on widespread availability of cars and trucks with batteries and electric motors.

«By sequestering the flue gas CO2 at the power plant, the bioelectricity pathway could result in a net removal of CO2 from the air,» the researchers wrote, and that could help with the problem of ever - rising levels of the greenhouse gases causing climate change.

Sulfate - reducing mixed communities with the ability to generate bioelectricity and degrade textile diazo dye in microbial fuel cells — Waheed Miran — Journal of Hazardous Materials

Get too close to one (say, within 1,000 kilometers, or about 600 miles), and the magnetic fields are strong enough to upset not just your bioelectricity — rendering your nerve impulses hilariously useless — but your very molecular structure.

Taking a walk in the forest, laughing with friends, doing Tai Chi or charging your chakras will do more for your chi circulation, bioelectricity (the electric potential across cell membranes) or photonic energy (light) than any biscuit ever will.

Unlike other brands, our 100 % organic Detox Foot Pads use carbon - titanium adhesive to boost both bioelectricity and blood flow through the feet and body.

Brazil's Paris pledge promises to increase the share of bioenergy — which includes biofuels and bioelectricity — in its overall energy mix to around 18 % by 2030.

Across vehicle types and different crops, this offset averages more than 100 % larger for the bioelectricity than for the ethanol pathway.

Bioelectricity was the clear winner in the transportation - miles - per - acre comparison, regardless of whether the energy was produced from corn or from switchgrass, a cellulose - based energy crop.

For now, just five courses have been approved for credit equivalency, four for college credit and one for vocational credit: Pre-Calculus from the University of California, Irvine; Introduction to Genetics and Evolution from Duke University; Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach from Duke University; Calculus: Single Variable from the University of Pennsylvania and Algebra from the University of California, Irvine.