{"id":26287,"date":"2009-04-07T17:12:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/07\/putting-viruses-to-work\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:12:02","slug":"putting-viruses-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/putting-viruses-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Viruses to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery.<\/p>\n<p>The new virus-produced batteries have the same energy capacity and power performance as state-of-the-art rechargeable batteries being considered to power plug-in hybrid cars, and they could also be used to power a range of personal electronic devices, said Angela Belcher, the MIT materials scientist who led the research team. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2009\/virus-battery-0402.html\">The press release is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery. The new virus-produced batteries have the same energy capacity and power performance as state-of-the-art rechargeable batteries being considered to power plug-in hybrid cars, and they could also be used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/putting-viruses-to-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putting Viruses to Work<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6PZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}