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Using Electricity to Heal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the frankenstein-approach-to-healing dept.

ganjadude writes to tell us that while the idea of using electricity to heal wounds was first reported 150 years ago by Emil Du Bois-Reymond, modern scientists may have found a way to practically apply this idea. From the article: "The researchers grew layers of mouse cells and larger tissues, such as corneas, in the lab. After 'wounding' these tissues, they applied varying electric fields to them, and found they could accelerate or completely halt the healing process depending on the orientation and strength of the field."

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  1. Old news by mnmn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forget about 150 years, down in Texas they use electric chairs to fix up some really sick people.
    And psychiatric wards have been using it to fix up people who were sick in the head in the early half of the century.

    Even the police and mean old ladies use it to fix other people and pets. Them doctors are a little behind.

    --
    "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
  2. forget that by npietraniec · · Score: 5, Funny

    This guy discovered immortality with magnets.

    http://www.alexchiu.com/

    Damn, they even interviewed him on slashdot.

    http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/0 6/07/1421238&mode=nocomment