Electricity, not DNA, could be the key to unlocking a medical breakthrough. A plate from the De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium instituto atque academia commentarii, produced between 1731 and 1791 (BibliOdyssey). One night in the late 1700s, Luigi Galvani, an anatomy professor at the University of Bologna, strung up butchered frog legs on his balcony. This in itself was not unusual - they were, in all likelihood, awaiting the dinner plate. But on this night,… More »