After all viruses are good for something as scientists from MIT, Cambridge have developed a battery which will be used to power a tiny electronic devices to better administer medicine. This tiny battery was created thanks to a genetically-engineered virus called M13 as they were looking for a virus that has negatively-charged amino-acids and which also has an attraction for cobalt.

The miniature electronic devices that will be powered by these batteries will also be used at tiny lab-on-a-chip applications. These microbatteries that MIT researchers developed could be very useful in the future as the devices are getting smaller and smaller as time passes by.

Another important aspect of the tiny batteries is that they are environmentally-friendly and easy to use as Paula Hammond, MIT Professor and a member of the team, said “we’re talking about a simple, inexpensive and environmentally better way of generating a microbattery.”

In order to complete the battery, there is only one thing needed, the cathode, however, it seems like this will not take too long to be completed and we should hear from MIT scientists really soon.