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The electric eel has been under constant study at a Yale laboratory. Researches have been hard at work trying to mimic artificially what the electric eel does naturally. Finally they have released a blueprint for a cell that they hope will be stronger and more efficient than batteries on the market today.

The eel generates electricity within its cells. Once the team mapped out just how eels do this, they set out to replicate the cells in order to create their own energy -- and even improve upon what the eel does naturally. According to their research, these new cells could be as much as 28% more powerful than an eel's electric charge.

Scientists hope to use these new artificial "bio-cells" in small medical devices like retinal implants. One of the benefits there being that the "battery" would not release toxins into the body if it broke. There is still a great deal of research that needs to be done before these new batteries are ready for use. One major hurdle is finding a power source which might come from bacteria.

I'll never look at an electric eel the same way again.