MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
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Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
#2Link to the original article:
http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/glucose-fuel-cell-0612.ht...
Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
#3Very interesting... Only a few short years ago this entire article would have been science fiction.
From the article: "The platinum acts as a catalyst, stripping electrons from glucose molecules, similar to how aerobic animal cells (such as our own) strip electrons from glucose with enzymes and oxygen."
I wonder, and am curious to learn more about, how much of this process is really understood by modern science.
Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
#4Anyone else read this title and think "Finally they've figured a way to let us have hard drives connected to our brains" or was it just me?:-D The technology is certainly interesting...
Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
#5I keep thinking "You will be assimilated" ... and it's simultaneously a scary idea and strangely desirable.
Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
#6I think the glucose present in the cerebrospinal fluid is there for a reason. Probably not to power implants.
PS: I'm not a doctor.
Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
#7Very interesting... Only a few short years ago this entire article would have been science fiction. From the article: "The platinum acts as a catalyst, stripping electrons from glucose molecules, similar to how aerobic animal cells (such as our own) strip electrons from glucose with enzymes and oxygen." I wonder, and am curious to learn more about, how much of this process is really understood by modern science.
Quite well understood actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_respiration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_transport_chain
One of the fundamental biochemical pathways and required reading for entry level life-sciences degree programs.
Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
#8I keep thinking "You will be assimilated" ... and it's simultaneously a scary idea and strangely desirable.
I keep thinking "You will be assimilated"
You're using the future tense. Sorry, but it's already happened.
and it's simultaneously a scary idea and strangely desirable.
Again, lots of precedent, and it's historical precedent.
Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
#9Very interesting... Only a few short years ago this entire article would have been science fiction. From the article: "The platinum acts as a catalyst, stripping electrons from glucose molecules, similar to how aerobic animal cells (such as our own) strip electrons from glucose with enzymes and oxygen." I wonder, and am curious to learn more about, how much of this process is really understood by modern science.
Quite well understood actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_respiration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_transport_chain One of the fundamental biochemical pathways and required reading for entry level life-sciences degree programs.
What is the actual chemical reaction going on here?
Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
#10Very interesting... Only a few short years ago this entire article would have been science fiction. From the article: "The platinum acts as a catalyst, stripping electrons from glucose molecules, similar to how aerobic animal cells (such as our own) strip electrons from glucose with enzymes and oxygen." I wonder, and am curious to learn more about, how much of this process is really understood by modern science.
Frighteningly well understood. The level of detail in which the electron transport chain is known is astonishing.