Research in the field of bioelectronics focused on the study of new mechanisms of interaction and manipulation, molecular and biological systems and bionic research approaches to new functional capabilities of electronic circuits, based on a thorough understanding of bioelectric and biomagnetic phenomena.
Today, scientists to circumvent the problem of reconciling animal studies with the ethics commissions basic experiments in the field of organic bioelectronics put on the plants. Recently a group of scientists from Sweden, Eleni Stavrinidou, Roger Gabrielsson and others made the first rose is a cyborg.
In their experiments, the researchers pumped into the leaves of the conductive solution, capable of changing color when voltage is applied. The sheet electrodes were summed current and the sheet has acquired a blue-green color. So plants can create simple electronic circuits.
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Thus, it was found that the rооts, stems, leaves, and vascular circuitry оf higher plants are respоnsible fоr cоnveying the chemical signals that regulate grоwth and functiоns. Frоm a certain perspective, these features are analоgоus tо the cоntacts, intercоnnectiоns, devices, and wires оf discrete and integrated electrоnic circuits.
With integrated and distributed electrоnics in plants, оne can envisage a range оf applicatiоns including precisiоn recоrding and regulatiоn оf physiоlоgy, energy harvesting frоm phоtоsynthesis, and alternatives tо genetic mоdificatiоn fоr plant оptimizatiоn.
In the future with similar schemes it will be possible to control biological processes in plants, making them more resistant to external conditions, without changing their genetic code.
The conducted research allows to conclude that plants with bioelectronics can process bio-electrical signals. Modern biomaterials are completely biocompatible, which allows them to make full use in any living organism.
As the researchers say, it is now necessary to teach them the wireless signal transmission. Thus in the human body can be done an extensive network of sensors, in real time, watching medical records person. It will also be possible to create bio electronic tablets, which with a jeweler's precision to be to perform its task inside the human body.
Now scientists are developing a device that will directly interact with certain parts of the human nervous system that will allow them to cure or significantly improve the lives of critically ill patients. We can say that behind this technology the future in various fields of applied science.