{"id":186409,"date":"2024-03-30T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-test-battery-powered-by-the-bodys-oxygen"},"modified":"2024-03-30T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T21:26:13","slug":"scientists-test-battery-powered-by-the-bodys-oxygen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-test-battery-powered-by-the-bodys-oxygen","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Test Battery Powered by the Body\u2019s Oxygen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-test-battery-powered-by-the-bodys-oxygen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Medical implants such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhlbi.nih.gov\/health\/pacemakers#:~:text=Pacemakers%20send%20electrical%20pulses%20to, if%20you%20have%20heart%20failure.\" class=\"\">pacemakers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/iuhealth.org\/find-medical-services\/gastric-electrical-stimulation\" class=\"\">gastric stimulators<\/a> have improved our lives, but the batteries in these devices eventually run out and require surgery to replace them.<\/p>\n<p>It raises a futuristic question: what if there was a way to avoid cutting a patient\u2019s body open to replace a battery?<\/p>\n<p>A team of Chinese scientists have come up with a possible method to pull that off by developing an implantable battery that uses oxygen already inside the human body to continuously power itself up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical implants such as pacemakers and gastric stimulators have improved our lives, but the batteries in these devices eventually run out and require surgery to replace them. It raises a futuristic question: what if there was a way to avoid cutting a patient\u2019s body open to replace a battery? A team of Chinese scientists have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}