Electricity-conducting bacteria yield secret to tiny batteries, big medical advances
Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 12:10
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have made a surprising discovery about how strange bacteria that live in soil and sediment can conduct electricity. The bacteria do so, the researchers determined, through a seamless biological structure never before seen in nature—a structure scientists can co-opt to miniaturize electronics, create powerful-yet-tiny batteries, build pacemakers without wires and develop a host of other medical advances.