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This implantable fuel cell generates electricity from glucose

March 29, 2023 By Sean Whooley

Prototype fuel cell for producing energy from glucose blood sugar (1)

A team of researchers developed an implantable fuel cell that uses excess glucose from tissue to generate electrical energy. By combining the fuel cell with artificial data cells, the team produced insulin with the touch of a button. This effectively lowered blood glucose levels like the natural process in the pancreas. Given that current treatments […]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Implants, Research & Development Tagged With: ETH Zurich

Researchers develop insulin-producing artificial beta cells

December 9, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

Researchers develop insulin-producing artificial beta cells

Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed artificial beta cells that can measure blood glucose concentration and respond by producing insulin. The team’s work was published this week in Science.  The ETH researchers used the natural glucose transport proteins and potassium channels found in the membrane of human kidney cells and modified them with a voltage-dependent calcium channel, […]

Filed Under: Diabetes, Featured, Research & Development, Stem Cells Tagged With: ETH Zurich

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