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From fainting goats to paralysis, physiologist Frances Ashcroft explains how bioelectricity controls our every move, in The Spark of Life
ELECTRICITY controls our bodies. Every impulse, from those that keep our hearts beating to those that move my fingers across this keyboard, is sent from brain to muscles as an electrical charge.
Frances Ashcroft, a physiologist at the University of Oxford who specialises in ion channels, attempts to explain the body electric in The Spark of Life…
