Michael Levin : The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life

Michael Levin·TED2020
The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life
Summary 

I was surprised at the two-headed worms which are highly regenerative. If you cut it into pieces, every piece will rebuild exactly what’s needed to make a perfect little worm. However, the speaker tells us that it’s not editing DNA. This is a mysterious bioelectric layer directing cells to work together to grow organ systems and bodies. It could be called the world’s first living robots known as a planarian. Cracking codes, not building what you would like them to build, it seems to lead to having communication with those, it means to be able to normalize tumors, repair birth defects, and induce regeneration of limbs and other organs. Furthermore, it’ll be able to take it into mammalian cells and really turn it into the next generation of regenerative medicine.