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Mia Vos
March 31, 2021 at 9:26 pm
Those flatworms are behaving in an abnormal way though. They will not live.
LAIDBACKMANNER
March 31, 2021 at 9:29 pm
WOW!!
Sly Ski
March 31, 2021 at 9:37 pm
Boy, this is something
Lucas Lucas
March 31, 2021 at 9:51 pm
I saw CatDog on those planarians
Farshad Niazi
March 31, 2021 at 10:31 pm
Finally we realize that biology can not be explained solely by chemistry. Here comes physics and computer science departments to revolutionize biology. Great times.
Dark Soul
March 31, 2021 at 10:33 pm
Two heads on a same body, highly competitive, not eating … are very happy he thinks!! … If anybody came to entrust such a guy to reprogram human cells! They would be just stupid! … This is a living breathing worse version of Dr. Frankenstein!!
TheBoothParadigm
March 31, 2021 at 10:34 pm
Incredible! A groundbreaking step towards control over nature.
NovemberTheHacker
March 31, 2021 at 10:35 pm
Stop lying.
Nadah Mekhlef
March 31, 2021 at 10:44 pm
It is not possible to be more creative than it was.
Антонио
March 31, 2021 at 10:49 pm
I already itching to start writing code for some organisms )
Ts M
March 31, 2021 at 10:50 pm
This is insane! This type of research gives me a crazy high! Feeling euphoric! Thanks Ted! Keep up the great content! Just imagine, cutting your hand and manifesting a twin through cellular mitosis! Absolute bonkers!!
sea bird
March 31, 2021 at 10:58 pm
Frankesntein isn’t a myth …..
Ambiorix Jimenez
March 31, 2021 at 11:02 pm
ETERNAL LIFE!?!?!?!?
Tilio Đarmati
March 31, 2021 at 11:05 pm
This is an april fools joke right? it has to be.
Federico Benincasa
March 31, 2021 at 11:07 pm
Mind. Blown.
Xuan Nguyen
March 31, 2021 at 11:30 pm
Such an amazing work and idea…can wait to see their next achievements!
RSM
March 31, 2021 at 11:40 pm
Impressive discovery
barry poontang
March 31, 2021 at 11:43 pm
ive wondered why so little work is dedicated to this exact field, its applications are huge, sure, but its literally the answer to life. the digital future is a lie, its a tool we use to answer these bio questions. The real future is biohacking, imagine a world where we have lazor ants and smart algae. edit: oh and also the whole live forever thing..thats kinda cool
Adrian
March 31, 2021 at 11:45 pm
I second the other comments, that’s just remarkable.
Zenn Exile
April 1, 2021 at 12:30 am
It’s astounding that the arrogance of macro perspective has persisted well into the 21st Century.
thewiseturtle
April 1, 2021 at 12:32 am
Michael Levin was a somewhat recent guest on Lex Fridman’s podcast (on YouTube) and it’s absolutely fantastic. The guy is deeply passionate about his work and life and ideas and is such a pleasure to listen to.
Mathieu Akerley
April 1, 2021 at 12:33 am
Look up the Ebner effect.
Darko
April 1, 2021 at 1:02 am
In the 15’th minute a notion about the inevitability of life, galvanized in my brain.
Lizbeth Rose
April 1, 2021 at 1:16 am
When you pan out and see how humans are this intelligence acting out on the earth organism then you will be able to resolve all of the age old questions
Cyber Wick
April 1, 2021 at 1:16 am
Rewrite genetics why?no need for any messing.
CHIRAG SHARMA
April 1, 2021 at 11:23 am
This was April fool
Pepe Bawagan
April 1, 2021 at 11:23 am
MEATWAD!!!
Woody Shea
April 1, 2021 at 11:37 am
This must be an April Fool’s thing. It’s just too astounding.
Edit: To be clear, I want so much to believe that some day my brain injury can magically be erased that the pressure I feel to believe this is almost overwhelming… If I allowed myself to believe it, and then it turned out to be a joke, though, it would be devastating.
YawnGod
April 1, 2021 at 2:25 pm
Just don’t make it about you and you’ll be fine.
hani
April 1, 2021 at 11:37 am
My god, that’s absolutely exciting!
MDJAK
April 1, 2021 at 12:04 pm
Thank the good lord for people as pure genius as this gentleman.
SANJEET KUMAR SINGH
April 1, 2021 at 12:26 pm
Can we have 3 heads
E Cognitio
April 1, 2021 at 12:28 pm
17:29 what’s stopping the opposite from happening? Sending signals that damage an organism, sounds like a WMD….
David X. Rae
April 1, 2021 at 11:29 pm
*cough* 5g
Naturally Interested
April 1, 2021 at 1:06 pm
Please don’t call such complex self-heraling processes ‘intelligent’. The IDiots are gonna leech onto that.
Naturally Interested
April 1, 2021 at 1:09 pm
Also biological systems are not computers. The code analogy is dumb.
Daniel Beaudry
April 1, 2021 at 1:29 pm
When the electrical stimulus is lacking “VOLTAGE, energy” then it stops growing, and perishes, that creates cancers. So, we don’t produce enough energy for our body’s servomechanism.
Daniel Beaudry
April 1, 2021 at 1:30 pm
To control the growing, control de voltage.
OmniversoSinDios
April 1, 2021 at 2:04 pm
Ok, you got my entirely attention now.
Drew the Human
April 1, 2021 at 2:35 pm
Absolutely Groundbreaking and Mind-blowing in the most literal sense.
Nomodus Project
April 1, 2021 at 2:52 pm
Wowwwww
Bee Shep
April 1, 2021 at 3:45 pm
Paging Rupert Sheldrake…
Alessa Feliciano
April 1, 2021 at 4:14 pm
This is amazing. Just wondering… what is the channel that allows these organized ion exchanges between cells to happen? Is it tubulin?
DillonThomasDigital
April 1, 2021 at 4:18 pm
This was recorded June 2020! How much further along is this research since then???
Ivan Rogic
April 1, 2021 at 4:37 pm
This is insane!
Anurag Kaushik
April 1, 2021 at 4:38 pm
I studied this in my school days that this organism can regenerate, but getting to know that how it regenerates and that too we can control is just amazing stuff.
DDPWE
April 1, 2021 at 5:14 pm
What a huge leap in further understanding biology! Sounds like we’re on our way to longer healthier life and re-growing appendages, among many other things of course!
Daniel Montealegre
April 1, 2021 at 6:11 pm
WOW, this is HUGE
Kęstas
April 1, 2021 at 6:38 pm
I think they are wrong, it’s all about diffusion and osmosis
What uwant2no
April 1, 2021 at 7:29 pm
Had to think of the ciba geigy experiment when watching this video. They germinated seeds and fertilized fishegg in an electro static field and got unusual plant and fish development. For them it looked like a primeval form.
Fieryfrostt
April 1, 2021 at 8:32 pm
Anyone knows if the offspring of these 2-headed flatworms would be normal?
Yen Bui
April 2, 2021 at 5:56 am
Yes because the DNA was not altered.
Dave Canden
April 1, 2021 at 9:20 pm
Penile enhancement will finally be a reality!
IcWhy
April 1, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Amazing video, thank you!
檜皮猫
April 2, 2021 at 12:59 am
11:16 traumatized
He Who Is
April 2, 2021 at 2:10 am
Our organic space suits are solar powered tech. Roger that.
OmniversoSinDios
April 2, 2021 at 3:08 am
ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the future!
RobertA105
April 2, 2021 at 8:59 am
Midi-chlorians were intelligent microscopic life-forms that lived symbiotically inside the cells of all living things. When present in sufficient numbers, they could allow their host to detect the pervasive energy field known as the Force. Looks like he’s discovered the force. But in all seriousness this is BIG!! The electrical field around cells appears to able to do vast computations and communications. This better not be an Aprils fools day joke, as I’d be furious. Its just too big to fool around about.
Navada Smith
April 2, 2021 at 9:41 am
Computers were made similar to the human brain. All Simulations are mimicking the natural Simulations of nature. Nature is the fundamental Simulation not fundamental reality. Intentions and consequent thoughts are/ love and wisdom, timeless and spaceless. They exist in the eternal realms, The void realms.They cause things to be Electrical and magnetical, causing physical Heat and light.
Lieve Leysen
April 2, 2021 at 10:31 am
Spoken of an idea worth sharing: Wow! 🤩
Snowman88
April 2, 2021 at 11:55 am
So Frank Herbert was right?
TheyCallMeNewb
April 2, 2021 at 12:21 pm
Little bit abstract perhaps, but the veritable ‘maps’ of organismal organisation realised through chemo- and contract-attract and repel signal and reception, are putatively appended by this voltage channel-dependent map? And if so, in a bit part role (hence the belated discovery)?
Invox
April 2, 2021 at 12:51 pm
TED be like: “Science is BACK baby!”
Loved it.
FR TR
April 2, 2021 at 1:45 pm
so 5g can be used to make us grow extra eyes ? Atleast a better deal than useless cancer … go science
Drew the Human
April 2, 2021 at 1:52 pm
Was this an April fool’s joke??? Say it ain’t so
Laarni Nate
April 2, 2021 at 3:23 pm
Wow!.amazing.!
Mizael David
April 2, 2021 at 3:29 pm
This could soon be a Nobel Prize awardee.
Mišel Šantl
April 2, 2021 at 5:59 pm
That’s amazing, great video
Deborah Grant
April 2, 2021 at 9:58 pm
This is mind blowing and very exciting!!!
C Burgess
April 2, 2021 at 11:43 pm
What is the connection between the manipulation of ion channels and the cell-fate determining epigenome?
MrCK
April 3, 2021 at 12:04 am
😮
Scott Plunkett
April 3, 2021 at 4:37 am
I’m a software developer and this legitimately creeps me out. Mutable global state…. THE HORROR!
Daniel Barbuda Ferreira
April 3, 2021 at 9:49 am
Fantastic!
Really not Rob
April 3, 2021 at 1:48 pm
Shortcut to quantum computing?
Robin
April 3, 2021 at 4:34 pm
Unbelievable discovery and also quite frightening. Wow. The evidence was shocking
Andrea Hazan
April 3, 2021 at 6:41 pm
I am in AWE!!! Of the shear intelligence of nature and the brilliance of these researchers!!! Thank You!!!
Hello
April 3, 2021 at 8:30 pm
fucking crazy
Hello
April 3, 2021 at 8:40 pm
after browsing reddit r science with their clickbait title its hard to belive this is real
Hello
April 3, 2021 at 8:40 pm
after browsing reddit r science with their clickbait titles its hard to belive this is real
THE ANGRY QUAD
April 3, 2021 at 10:18 pm
Would it penetrate the Spinal cord and reconstruct the spinal cord?
Elizabeth LeBouef
April 4, 2021 at 7:45 am
Great going ! Similar technology has got into criminal hands and over a million of Americans are getting tortured 25/7 INNOUR homes and we are dying!! Do you care??? NO !!!!!!!
Beauford A. Stenberg
April 4, 2021 at 10:24 am
If we see significant advance in this field of cellular bioelectrical engineering through charged ions it will be grappled with by bioethics, thankfully and hopefully.
Sonnentau1
April 4, 2021 at 11:36 am
Thats very nice from the body to offer an API.
celestialcircledance
April 4, 2021 at 12:18 pm
Gee I’d hate to die before they start testing anti aging on humans . It all sounds cutting edge and exciting and fascinating but the question that concerns me is always when ? !!
hootsmin
April 4, 2021 at 4:29 pm
This work builds on the work done by scientists like Dr Robert Becker who’s excellent book “The Body Electric” is a great read and goes into more detail over limb and organ regeneration. Time all the scientists and doctors realise that the body is electric and stop nuking everyone with dangerous electromagnetic technology.
Brannon Harris
April 4, 2021 at 5:21 pm
I’ll take a third arm please and thank you.
The Last Descendent
April 5, 2021 at 2:34 am
Ted talk
Can we have Hans Forsberg on ted talk?. His training wild birds to pick up rubbish for exchange for food. We are going to have the world clean in no time.
jonahansen
April 5, 2021 at 4:14 am
This is bullshit.
jonahansen
April 5, 2021 at 4:19 am
Wow – my incipient comment got dumped! This guy is a fraud, and the interviewer is either in on it, or is a total dufus. A bunch of buzzwords thrown around and a collection of clips from other science studies edited together. The guy even looks deranged. Perhaps an attempt to see how gullible viewers are. If it’s supposed to be an April fools joke, the date is wrong. What a bunch of crap. How did this get onto the TED channel. Is it not curated at all?
Angstrom
April 5, 2021 at 4:49 am
Our entire body is a brain? Is that where “gut” feelings come from, it’s the core of our whole body “brain”?
Ismael Eye
April 5, 2021 at 7:56 am
OMG……….in 10 years, nothing will be the same.
Tuhin James Paul
April 5, 2021 at 8:24 am
Great .
Umut Karakurt
April 5, 2021 at 12:28 pm
Why the whole world is not talking about this right now? The results will have great impacts on many institutions!.. Oh right, humans are stupid.
Tomasz Tomasz
April 5, 2021 at 12:56 pm
Funny but in 1985 there was a book titled – the body electric . Mindblowing that it took science 25 years to discover 5% of What it is in that book ?;)
DELV IN
April 5, 2021 at 6:33 pm
Winter soldiers are comming guise
triniMahn
April 5, 2021 at 7:59 pm
These educated fools will end up destroying millions of years of self-assembled beauty.
Andy Zhang
April 6, 2021 at 12:04 am
looks like hes regenerated his hair already