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The body electric: soft tissue makes electricity under stress

Light micrograph of the tunica media of a human aorta.

Aortic-wall tissue (above) generates electricity if squeezed, an attribute previously observed only in hard materials such as bone. Credit: Jose Calvo/SPL

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Nature 576, 340 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03806-8

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