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Bioelectronics conference takes an interdisciplinary approach to medicine

What if . . . The tiniest electrical device, wrapped around a nerve, could signal the cells lining your stomach that it is full, thereby quashing your desire to eat everything on the left side of the refrigerator? Or tell the dormant pancreas of a diabetic to resume making insulin? Or tell the muscles around a senior's bladder to contract like they used to so nothing leaks? Or tell the fibers in the lungs of an asthmatic child to relax so breathing is easy?

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