{"id":227529,"date":"2025-12-20T09:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-jolt-to-the-system-biophysicists-uncover-new-electrical-transmission-in-cells"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:17:53","slug":"a-jolt-to-the-system-biophysicists-uncover-new-electrical-transmission-in-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-jolt-to-the-system-biophysicists-uncover-new-electrical-transmission-in-cells","title":{"rendered":"A jolt to the system: Biophysicists uncover new electrical transmission in cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-jolt-to-the-system-biophysicists-uncover-new-electrical-transmission-in-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many biological processes are regulated by electricity\u2014from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and out of cells.<\/p>\n<p>A study by Scripps Research scientists reveals a previously unknown potential regulator of this bioelectricity: droplet-like structures called condensates. Condensates are better known for their role in compartmentalizing the cell, but this study shows they can also act as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-08-droplet-battery-pave-miniature-bio-integrated.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">tiny biological batteries<\/a> that charge the cell membrane from within.<\/p>\n<p>The team showed that when electrically charged condensates collide with cell membranes, they change the cell membrane\u2019s voltage\u2014which influences the amount of electrical charge flowing across the membrane\u2014at the point of contact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many biological processes are regulated by electricity\u2014from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and out of cells. A study by Scripps Research scientists reveals a previously unknown potential regulator of this bioelectricity: droplet-like structures called condensates. Condensates are better known for their role in compartmentalizing the cell, but this study shows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}