Levin's lab at Tufts shows that the bioelectric network in tissues works as a layer of form memory running parallel to the genetic code. Cancer in this picture is a failure of the tissue's collective goal, something "broken genes" alone cannot explain.
Why it matters for Neural Cosmology: this is one of the programme's five pillars. Computational structure turns up in the cortex, in the cosmic web and at the level of cells, so network organisation repeats across very different scales.