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Viruses Engineered to Construct Batteries

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the living-lightning dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at MIT have modified the M13 virus to create very small batteries. With the viruses building wires 6 nanometers in diameter, the research team hopes to 'build batteries that range from the size of a grain of rice up to the size of existing hearing-aid batteries.'"

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  1. Re:Environmental disaster looms by Tx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Huh-huh, you said "proteinaceous protuberance", huh-huh ;).

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  2. Silly me. by Ira_Gaines · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I read the title and thought that someone wrote a virus that drains your batteries. That would suck if they had that for ipods.

  3. whoops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh
    Shit!
    Posted
    Again in
    the wrong thread. What now?
    Duck! The mods will burn me for sure!