Mimicking Electric Eel Cells

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 5, 2008 @10:23AM from the positively-shocking dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team of US researchers has asked the following question in the new field of systems biology: 'Do we understand how a cell produces electricity well enough to design one, and to optimize that design?' They believe it should be possible to build artificial cells replicating the electrical behavior of electric eel cells. In fact, such artificial cells could deliver better performance — as much as 40% more energy than real eel cells, a computer model suggests. They could be used to power medical implants and other small devices."

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Re:Force lighting? by aqk · 2008-10-05 15:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

To hell with all this tech talk!

I wanna see the the replies to Jason's Grandpa! (above)

Who knows- maybe the ol' coot can generate several amps from his rectal discharges.
Don't be so quick to mod some of these gems as trolls!
I do believe Michael Faraday started out like this, and the snotty Sir Humphrey Davy modded HIM as a troll!

And please- no youtube videos of eels being sobmitted to anatomical indignities. I've seen 'em all!

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F U /. illiterates.