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Yeast-Powered Fuel Cell Feeds On Human Blood

Posted by timothy on from the because-you-need-some-serious-news-too dept.

holy_calamity writes "Canadian researchers have taken a sensible, if slightly creepy, step towards solving the problem of medical implant batteries running down. They've built a fuel cell powered by yeast that feed on the glucose in human blood. If this makes it into people, keeping your implants going will be as simple as eating a donut."

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  1. Re:Diabetes Management by ArcherB · · Score: 5, Funny

    If this were used to power a glucose meter and microprocessor, and throttled appropriately, could it be used to manage blood sugar for diabetics?

    Until the yeast gets smart enough to figure out that it can fudge the results to feed itself.

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  2. Anyone having a Strange Brew flashback? by Phizzle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, but when I saw the summation about Canadian scientists and beer yeast on April 1st, my mind immediately went to some kind of mutated Bob & Doug McKenzie flashback.

    Doug McKenzie: I am your father, Luke. Give in to the dark side of the force, you knob.
    Bob McKenzie: He saw Jedi 17 times, eh.
    Doug McKenzie: Hey I just thought of something, what if we could harness the power of the force from the beer yeast that would feed on human blood? Somekinda Vampire beer power, eh?
    Bob McKenzie: Take off, eh!

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