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Battery-free pacemaker successfully powers the heart

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[Image from Rice Integrated Systems and Circuits/Rice University]
A wireless, battery-free pacemaker has shown success in powering the heart in pig models, according to researchers from Rice University and Texas Heart Institute.

The pacemaker, designed by lead researcher Aydin Babakhani, gets its energy wirelessly from radio frequency radiation that gets transmitted wirelessly from an external battery pack from a few centimeters away.

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