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  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Polymer Science and Engineering, UMass Amherst
Your skin cells can generate electricity when wounded. Torsten Wittmann, University of California, San Francisco/NIH via Flickr

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

Sun-Min Yu, UMass Amherst and Steve Granick, 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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