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Nanobatteries Power Artificial Eyes

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the looking-into-the-future dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "A new U.S. research center, the National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors, has been opened to promote new ideas in the field of nanomedicine. For example, a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) is developing a nano-size battery to be implanted in the eye to power artificial retina. But this center will also design and build 'nanomedical devices based on natural and synthetic ion transporters -- proteins that control ion motion across the membranes of every living cell.'"

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  1. SNL must be up for funding by Locke2005 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sure, everytime you want to get more money, just trot out a hot babe like Susan Rempe in your press release... oh, wait, maybe I need an artificial retina! Anyway, doesn't SNL really stand for "Saturday Night Live"?!?

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  2. The new Terminators by fbg111 · · Score: 0, Troll

    National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors

    Next thing you know the world will be ravaged by a rogue band of T-2000's, made of perfectly disguised, indestructable biomimetic nanoconducting polyalloy!

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