# Bioelectricity Nexus

> A hub for the field of developmental bioelectricity — peer-reviewed papers, software and lab tools, named researchers in Michael Levin's network, and real-world applications from cancer to regeneration. Curated for scientists, students, journalists, and the curious public.

Bioelectricity Nexus is an open, comprehensive resource site organized around five doorways: **Browse Papers**, **Find Tools**, **Meet Researchers**, **See Applications**, and **Watch Talks**. The site is centered on the work of Michael Levin (Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology, Tufts University; Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts) and the broader community of labs and contributors advancing the field.

Key facts:
- Developmental bioelectricity is the study of how endogenous voltage gradients across cell membranes (Vmem) carry instructive information that controls growth, pattern formation, regeneration, and behavior.
- These bioelectric signals form an ancient, pre-neural communication system used by all cells.
- Reading and writing these patterns enables novel interventions in cancer, regenerative medicine, birth-defect repair, synthetic morphology (xenobots, anthrobots), and aging.

## Core sections

- [Overview / What is Bioelectricity?](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/): Homepage hub with introduction, five-section browser, mission, dashboard, and links into the rest of the site.
- [Michael Levin](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/michael-levin): Profile and positions of the field's leading researcher — Tufts, Allen Discovery Center, Wyss Institute, Morphoceuticals, ICDO.
- [Research Map](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/research): The 11 core research themes from bioelectric pattern control to computational modeling.
- [Applications](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/applications): Where bioelectricity meets the clinic and engineering — limb regeneration, cancer electroceuticals, birth-defect repair, xenobots, aging.

## Browse the literature

- [Key Papers](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/key-papers): Curated foundational papers, reviews, and preprints across the field.
- [Latest Papers](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/latest-papers): Newest indexed papers with discussion threads, comment previews, sort by recent or most-discussed. RSS at /feeds/papers.xml.
- [Discussions](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/discussions): Per-paper community threads. RSS at /feeds/discussions.xml.

## People and tools

- [Researchers & Labs](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/researchers): Directory of named researchers and labs in the bioelectricity network — Levin Lab plus the broader community.
- [Network](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/network): Affiliated institutions — Allen Discovery Center, Wyss Institute, Morphoceuticals, ICDO, and partner labs.
- [Tools & Software](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/tools): BETSE simulations, voltage reporter dyes, optogenetics, datasets, lab equipment, and protocols.
- [Resources](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/resources): Curated directory of journals, communities, courses, and external resources.

## Talks, media, education

- [Talks & Media](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/talks): TED talks, Lex Fridman interviews, conference lectures, podcasts, long-form interviews.
- [CIMC Philosophy Review](https://cimcreview.com/): External philosophy seminar series from the California Institute of Machine Consciousness (founded by Joscha Bach) covering consciousness, philosophy of mind, cognitive architecture, and machine ethics — directly relevant to bioelectricity's questions about basal cognition and the scaling of mind. Listed under /resources.
- [Glossary](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/glossary): Terms — bioelectric code, Vmem, morphogenetic code, basal cognition, diverse intelligence, and more.
- [Bioelectricity in Motion](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/bioelectric-animations): Original animated illustrations of bioelectric phenomena — the current of injury and the biphasic voltage curve of salamander limb regeneration — recreated in our own visual style from the science popularized in Robert O. Becker's The Body Electric.
- [Dev Activity](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/dev-activity): Recent updates, additions, and changes to the site.

## Programs

- [Symposium on the Platonic Space (2025)](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/platonic-space/symposium): Interdisciplinary symposium (organized by Michael Levin & Hananel Hazan) on the latent space of patterns that may in-form biology and physics. In-depth on-site summaries for flagship talks — Levin, Karl Friston, Denis Noble, Iain McGilchrist, Blaise Agüera y Arcas — each tagged with the glossary terms it covers and linked to a community discussion thread. Companion glossary of ~30 terms at /platonic-space.
- [Platonic Space Glossary](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/platonic-space): The core vocabulary used across the symposium talks, defined and attributed — latent Platonic space, formal causality, active inference, attractor landscapes, multiscale competency architecture, ingression, biological relativity, spherical causation, and more. Each term links to the seminars that engage it.
- [Computational Morphogenesis Research Fellow](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/fellows): A focused 12-week, fully-remote research fellowship at the intersection of bioelectricity, morphogenesis, and computation. $2,000 stipend, ~5–10 hrs/week, one research paper plus a final presentation as output, eight research tracks (or propose your own). Fall 2026 pilot cohort starts August 15, 2026; rolling applications. Apply at /fellows/apply or nominate someone at /fellows/nominate.
- [Heilmeier Questions — NexBot](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/heilmeier-questions): Program-level vision document for autonomous robot scientists for living systems, with a single health bet on cancer.
- [Mission](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/mission): The site's mission and editorial principles.

## Optional

- [Shop](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/shop): Educational merch.
- [Sitemap](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/sitemap.xml): Full machine-readable list of canonical URLs.
- [RSS — Papers](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/feeds/papers.xml): Latest 50 papers as RSS.
- [RSS — Discussions](https://bioelectricitynexus.com/feeds/discussions.xml): Latest 50 discussion threads as RSS.