Today we travel to a future where super-bandages can heal wounds really fast.
Guests:
- Dr. Daniel Cohen — Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
- Dr. Keisha Ray — Assistant Professor, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston
- Sylvan* — street medic in Portland (*pseudonym)
Voice Actors:
Further Reading:
- Galvanotactic control of collective cell migration in epithelial monolayers
- Researchers use electric fields to herd cells like flocks of sheep
- Bioelectricity and Regeneration: Large Currents Leave the Stumps of Regenerating Newt Limbs
- Measurement of electrical currents emerging during the regeneration of amputated finger tips in children
- SCHEEPDOG: Programming Electric Cues to Dynamically Herd Large-Scale Cell Migration
- Tiny Sheep: UC Berkeley Researchers Use Electricity to Herd Cells and, Potentially, Speed Up Healing
- The Experiment That Shocked The World
- Giovanni Aldini: from animal electricity to human brain stimulation
- An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute and Rep
- The Body Electric
- A strand of vermicelli: Dr Darwin’s part in the creation of Frankenstein’s monster
- Zap Yourself Healthy With The Electric Corset, 1883
- Strange Antique Medical Devices That Promised to Cure Everything With Electricity
- Abraham Flexner
- Mr. Frankenstein Is Not Invited
- At High Risk From Coronavirus, Undocumented Seniors Fear Seeking Medical Care
- Towards an Integration of PrEP into a Safe Sex Ethics Framework for Men Who Have Sex with Men
- Change in Sexual Behavior With Provision of No-Cost Contraception
- PrEP doesn’t lead to increases in risky sex among gay men
- Vulnerable population and methods for their safeguard
- Police Targeting ‘Street Medics’ at US Protests
- Meet the ‘Grandmother of Street Medics’
- 50 days of protest in Portland. A violent police response. This is how we got here.
- ‘It was like being preyed upon’: Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them
- The black men from Pittsburgh who made up America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives—starting with their own.
- Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On — Especially During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- The Black Cross Collective
- Pepper Spray Trials
Full transcript in site.