Irish Scientists Discover Method to Produce Electricity from Tears

ENN
Oct 2, 2017, 2:11 pm48 pts
A team of scientists at University of Limerick has discovered that applying pressure to a protein found in egg whites and tears can generate electricity. The researchers from the Bernal Institute observed that crystals of lysozyme, a model protein that is abundant in egg whites of birds as well as in the tears,…

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