Bioelectronics: The Promise of Leveraging the Body’s Circuitry to Treat Disease

Abstract

Since 1950, life expectancy has increased at a rate of more than 3 years per decade worldwide. Progress stalled for a while in Europe after the collapse of Soviet Union and in Africa in the 1990s due to the HIV epidemic, but the upward trend has more recently resumed–life expectancy increased globally by 5 years between 2000 and 2015 [1]. Unfortunately, a longer life does not necessarily translate into better health. The World Health Organization predicts that approximately 10 years of our existence will be spent