Linking electronics to medical devices like pacemakers and insulin pumps requires the careful monitoring of foreign metallic and semiconducting materials to ensure the body does not reject them. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Univeristy think they have a better idea about how to do this: use self-assembling organic wires made from naturally occuring proteins.
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