Latest organic wires can avoid human body rejection

Cardiac pacemaker and insulin pump such medical devices for electrical connections to the implantation in metal and semiconductor materials for careful monitoring to ensure that the human body does not produce a rejection.

Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins University), researchers believe they have discovered a better way to produce avoid human rejection: made from natural protein combination of self (self-assembling) organic wires.

John Hopkins University Professor John Tovar said, "the organism and don't really contain metal, so it can be in cardiac pacemakers or other required to provide current medical devices using organic wires to simulate metal or other semiconductor materials".

Tovar further said, "if we can use organic material substitution inorganic or non-natural materials and then to make the body better accepted implantation medical devices" in the body.

To date, self assembling protein sequence has been proven to achieve Micron long organic wires, its diameter is only about 6 nm---than the current medical infusion of metal wires are used.

Such organic wire conductivity is at present no precise data, the researchers expected this kind of organic wire conductivity and other conductive polymer almost---slightly inferior to the metal, but the move to e-rate requirements low implantation in the human body in terms of the medical device is sufficient.

If this technology to perfection, one day it will not only for pacemakers and other implanted medical devices of the human body, can also be used for injured spinal paralysis of limbs, recovery activities.