Glucose-based biofuel implants generate their own electricity to charge

Keeping implanted pacemakers and artificial kidneys functional might become a lot more simpler for you. In the near future, a sugary diet might be able to fuel the medical devices that keep you going. Scientists at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France have successfully implanted the first sugar-and-oxygen-powered biofuel cells in a living creature. Unlike the present internal devices that are powered by batteries, which require surgical removal when they run out of power, the glucose-based biofuel cells do not require replacement. The small graphite-based fuel cell contains different enzymes on both sides that digest oxygen from air and sugar from food to create a small electrical charge.

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Via: Msnbc