Dr Venter, however, has succeeded in engineering a secretion pathway from another organism into experimental algae.

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Amin Karami, an aerospace engineering research fellow, presented data at the American Heart Association annual conference in November showing an experimental energy harvester can convert the energy from the beating of a heart into enough usable electrical energy to, in theory, operate a pacemaker.

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