While the electric eel is the ... electric organ is to properly sum and channel these voltages. All vertebrates have ample experience in doing this within the conduction system of their hearts.

“Our artificial electric organ ... improve the system’s performance dramatically, for example by making the hydrogel membranes thinner to reduce their resistance. Electric eels use metabolic ...

A team of researchers led by Michael Mayer at the University of Fribourg have now created a new kind of power source that ingeniously mimics the eel’s electric organ. It consists of blobs of ...