Science news articles about 'electric eel'

... how a cell produces electricity well enough to design one—and to optimize that design?” he asks. Electric eels channel the output of thousands of specialized cells called electrocytes to generate ...

The same cells electric eels use to shock predators and prey can be engineered to power implanted biomedical devices, say researchers.

Electric knifefish, close relatives of the electric eel, navigate and communicate by projecting electric fields around their bodies. Research at University of Toronto is clarifying how this sense has ...

... began with the question of whether an artificial version of the electrocyte – the energy-generating cells in electric eels – could be designed as a potential power source. "The electric eel is very ...

... way certain real cells generate electric voltages, but also acts as a tiny battery that could offer ... versions of complex real cells—such as those that enable an electric eel to zap its prey—is far too ...