How to Use bioelectric in a Sentence

bioelectric

adjective
  • But neurons are not the only bioelectric network in the body.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • The scientists’ first task is to eavesdrop on bioelectric patterning.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • Yes, the physical substrate of heaven and hell is rooted in bioelectric signals that obey natural laws.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 10 May 2021
  • The Storm’s screen — like the iPhone’s — is sensitive to the bioelectric pulses in your fingertips.
    — Daniel Dumas, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2008
  • The kinds of fixes enabled by bioelectric interventions are downright shocking.
    — Sally Adee, Quartz, 30 May 2019
  • However, the bird can compensate by changing its internal bioelectric field.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2021
  • The bioelectric currents created by the mushrooms power the tiny arms, which then play musical instruments.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Could cancer be reversed by controlling the bioelectric conversations among cells?
    — Sally Adee, Quartz, 30 May 2019
  • These spaces, known as the nodes of Ranvier, act like bioelectric repeaters to relay an electrical impulse from node to node down the axon.
    — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Enlisting his training in computer science, Levin is now determined to crack the body’s bioelectric code.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2017
  • It can be created by genetic damage, but also by disruptions in bioelectric voltage.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • The bioelectric currents may convert minerals from one form to another, for instance, fostering the growth of a diversity of other species.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2019
  • But current bioelectric methods, such as those using electrodes, still affect large numbers of cells indiscriminately.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 13 July 2020
  • Levin believes this information is delivered to the cells via bioelectric signaling, which governs the maintenance of form in other organisms such as fish, frogs and humans.
    — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
  • In the medium term, the technique may be useful in bioelectric medicine, which involves delivering therapeutic electrical pulses.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 13 July 2020
  • Set at a video game studio in modern-day Johannesburg, the series kicks off as an electromagnetic wave hits the studio, frying equipment and the bioelectric signals in people’s brains.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021
  • GammaCore owes its invention to the relatively new field of bioelectric medicine, a discipline that uses electricity to hack into the body’s signaling system to treat disease.
    — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 10 June 2021
  • And because the brain and nervous system are so conspicuously active electrically, the researchers also began to probe their involvement in long-distance patterns of bioelectric information affecting development.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2018
  • In 2015, Levin, his postdoc Vaibhav Pai, and other collaborators showed experimentally that bioelectric signals from the body shape the development and patterning of the brain in its earliest stages.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2018

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