Fuel Cell to Harvest Body’s Glucose as Power Source for Medical Implants

Electronic medical implants typically run on batteries, which have limited lifetimes, require secure enclosures, and take up a lot of space. But a quest has been underway to use glucose, a ubiquitous source of energy used by the body and available nearly everywhere within it, as a fuel to power implantable devices.

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