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I don't think this is in proper format.... just saying.

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Yeah the OP needs to have quotes and/or personal input instead of just a link.

 

As for the actual article, it's really cool that they are using ATP to power electronics. A few days ago I was sort of wondering why we don't try to merge biology with electronics and robotics more often. For those of you that saw this weeks Tek episode, Wendel talks about linear muscle like activators. Which made me think about how plausible having a bunch of muscles hooked up to electrodes would be. Of course the main problem would be feeding and removing waste products but it might be more efficient than other linear activators.

 

What this article discusses seems to be along those lines. Of course they still need to get ATP from somewhere and while glycolysis can product a net gain of ATP, it requires ATP to get started, and it results in a lot of "waste" which can create more ATP if it completes the metabolic pathway for which you normally need a mitochondria. (Can't remember too much about prokaryote metabolic pathways) Perhaps they figured out how to create mitochondria like conditions without actually needing a cell, in which case that in and off it self is really cool! Unfortunately I've got to study for a bio midterm I'll be having on Saturday so I can't read the full report :( but for those interested, here's the link I found on an article linked to by the article that the OP linked to: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/02/17/1510825113 Also it is awesome that I at least somewhat understand what they actually plan on doing.

 

 

Edit: Spoke with a friend who's better at bio than me and realized that this might be one of those "Lab only" things. If you don't get what I mean by that, check the relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/ As such I'm really curious how well this scales.

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Apologies, I only had a minute to post this. I hope you found it interesting, as I did. 

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