Over the year, he said, the cells will produce about the same amount of power as a house uses.
"His cells must produce some chemical other people don't have."
When a disease is present, a cell can produce harmful proteins.
It can then search this collection for a cell producing a particular protein of interest.
All cells produce it, as a part of their day-to-day functioning.
For example, solar cells produce electricity when they are exposed to sun light.
The cells have been producing significant savings over conventional processes.
However, these cells only produce around 1.16 volts of electricity.
In order to conserve resources a cell will only produce molecules that it needs at the time.
The new cells would then produce large amounts of antibodies in the laboratory.