Bioelectricity Buzz

S pring is finally here and new ideas in the Bioelectricity sphere are truly buzzing.This install- ment covers electrically facilitated transportation of flower mites, synthetic G-protein-coupled receptor proteins designed to drive specific cell behaviors, pain relief via targeted inhibition of voltage-gated sodium channel activity, mechanosensitive channels that drive swallowing, a wireless electrical neural scaffold material, and using a charged substrate that enhances T cell-mediated cancer immunotherapy.A Mitey Fine Ride: Tropical Flower Mites Use Electrical Forces to Locate Hummingbirds and Hitch a Lift to Distant Flowers It seems apt to open this spring installment of Buzz with a captivating story about interactions between hummingbirds, flowers, and insects, where electrical forces mediate both detection of an avian host and electrotaxis of phoretic mites toward it.