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finding:brief-bioelectric-manipulation-can-stably-convert-wild-type-planaria-to-a-two-headed-target-morphology-that-persists-through-regenerationBrief bioelectric manipulation can stably convert wild-type planaria to a two-headed target morphology that persists through regeneration.
From Durant et al. 2017; shows bioelectric pattern memory is reprogrammable without genomic change.
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- Argues this separation allows reprogramming without hardware change.
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- From Sullivan et al. 2016 and Emmons-Bell et al. 2015; demonstrates that large morphospace distances can be crossed by physiological manipulation.
- Transient bioelectric perturbation with ion channel drugs/RNAi permanently alters the number of heads regenerated even in subsequent rounds without further treatment, demonstrating bioelectric pattern memory.
- Transient perturbation of bioelectric states produces stable two-headed planaria that regenerate truefinding0.858Manipulating gap junctions or ion channels can permanently alter the target morphology in planaria, resulting in two-headed animals that regenerate two heads without further intervention.
- Demonstrates that anatomical outcomes can be reprogrammed at the bioelectric level independently of DNA, inverting the software/hardware metaphor
- Bioelectrical modulation can revert two-headed planaria back to normal (Durant et al. 2017).finding0.846Shows reversibility of bioelectric pattern memory.
- Experimental evidence that organism-scale goals can be rewritten through physiological signals without genetic modification; demonstrates bioelectricity as cognitive medium.
- Key evidence that morphogenetic memories are stored in bioelectric circuits and are rewritable via transient voltage state modifications; memory persists across multiple regeneration cycles.