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By Richard Van Noorden of Nature magazine The dozen or so brown garden snails crawling around the plastic, moss-filled terrarium in Evgeny Katz's laboratory look normal, but they have a hidden superpower: they produce electricity. Into each mollusk, Katz and his team at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, have implanted tiny biofuel cells that extract electrical power from the glucose and oxygen in the snail's blood. [More]

For millions of diabetes sufferers, life is a constant battle to keep their blood sugar balanced, which typically means they have to test their glucose levels and take insulin throughout the day.