Michael Levin
Bioelectricity and Brain Development: Consciousness Before the First Neuron Fires
The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe — 86 billion neurons connected by approximately 100 trillion synapses, generating the electrical storms we experience as thought, emotion, and consciousness. The standard story of brain development begins with neural induction,...
Gap Junctions: The Body's Cellular Internet
Every conversation about the brain begins with synapses — the chemical and electrical connections between neurons that enable thought, memory, and consciousness. But there is a far older, far more pervasive communication network operating in your body, one that connects virtually every cell to...
Michael Levin and the Bioelectric Code: The Software Layer of Life
If DNA is the source code of biological life, then bioelectricity is the compiler that turns it into a living organism. For decades, molecular biology has operated under a central dogma: DNA encodes proteins, proteins build structures, and the genome is the master blueprint of form.
Morphogenetic Fields and Bioelectric Validation: When the "Spooky" Becomes Measurable
For nearly a century, two ideas haunted the margins of biology. Harold Saxton Burr at Yale University measured electrical fields around living organisms in the 1930s and 1940s, calling them "L-fields" (life fields) and claiming they served as organizational templates for biological form.
Cancer as a Bioelectric Disease: When Cells Forget They Are Part of a Body
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, killing nearly 10 million people per year. We have sequenced the genomes of thousands of tumors, catalogued hundreds of oncogenes and tumor suppressors, and developed targeted therapies that attack specific mutations.
Bioelectric Medicine: Clinical Applications of the Body's Electrical System
The human body is an electrical system. Every cell maintains a voltage across its membrane.
Cellular Consciousness and Collective Intelligence: Levin's TAME Framework
Are individual cells conscious? Can a skin cell think?
Planaria Regeneration and Bioelectric Memory: The Worm That Remembers Its Shape
Cut a planarian flatworm in half, and both halves regenerate into complete organisms. Cut it into ten pieces, and you get ten worms.
Regenerative Medicine and the Bioelectric Future: Regrowing Limbs by Rewriting the Blueprint
A salamander loses its leg and grows a new one — bone, muscle, nerve, blood vessels, skin, and toes — perfectly proportioned, fully functional, indistinguishable from the original. A human loses a finger and grows a scar.
Xenobots: Living Robots and the Emergence of Morphogenetic Consciousness
In January 2020, a team led by Michael Levin at Tufts University and Josh Bongard at the University of Vermont announced the creation of xenobots — living organisms assembled from frog cells that spontaneously organized into forms never seen in nature, moved through their environment, healed...
Biofield and EMF Interaction: The Signal-to-Noise Problem of Living in an Electromagnetic Soup
Before we can understand how external electromagnetic fields (EMF) interfere with biological function, we need to establish a fact that mainstream biology has been slow to embrace but that physics has never disputed: the human body generates, transmits, and receives electromagnetic signals as a...
Electromagnetic Healing and Consciousness Implications: When the Body Electric Meets the Healing Field
Before we discuss electromagnetic healing, we must establish a fact that mainstream medicine has been slow to fully integrate: the human body is an electromagnetic system. Not metaphorically.
Biofield Science and Research: The Electromagnetic Body
Every living organism generates electromagnetic fields. The human heart produces an electrical field measurable by electrocardiogram (ECG) from meters away.
Harold Saxton Burr: The Yale Professor Who Discovered the Electric Blueprint of Life
In the 1930s, at a time when molecular biology was in its infancy and the structure of DNA was still decades from discovery, a professor of anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine was making measurements that, had they been taken seriously, might have redirected the entire trajectory of...
Conception and the Entry of Consciousness: Where Biology Meets Spirit
When does consciousness enter the body? The question stands at the intersection of biology, philosophy, theology, and indigenous wisdom — and it has no answer that all traditions agree upon.