link: http://yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25674
This article discusses the design of an artificial cell that can act as a tiny battery, potentially in medical devices. Based on the cells of electric eels, which produce a sodium ion gradient across two different membranes, the artificial cell has a higher theoretical electricity production and efficiency rate than their natural models. This is an exciting new development that may revolutionize the way we power our devices. Artificial cells can be more easily sustained in the body because they use its natural energy sources for power, and thus can be renewable sources of energy for electronic devices like pacemakers.
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This is a fascinating article illustrating a remarkable discovery in medical science. This has the potential to revolutionize the medical world with relation to surgery, success rate, and even life span. Since it is powered by energy already found in the cell, its chance of being successful within the body without the risk that traditional machines, such as the pacemaker, carry, is sure to save more lives with better efficiency than previous models, furthering the amount of new, intellectual technology in the medical science world.
ReplyDeleteVery, very interesting article. I think it is remarkable how scientists are able to harness energy possessed already present in biological entities. Not only is it beneficial and efficient, but it is obvious! It makes me being to think, that if this becomes a revolutionary breakthrough, how harnessing the earth's energy (wind, solar, water) could affect human kind and our planet for the years and decades to come .
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