Rahul Sarpeshkar, head of research and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, believes that the glucose fuel cell can be integrated into the silicon brain transplant. Although technology has been developed since the 1970s, but MIT's new fuel cell is made from silicon, material is also used in the semiconductor chip. Fuel cells also contain no biological components because it is made from platinum catalyst frees the electrons from glucose.

Benjamin Rapoport, an author of new research believe that it will need a few more years before people with spinal cord injury applied to the transplant system in the context of conventional medical care, but this is the type of device that people can imagine the power supply from glucose fuel cell.

According to Professor Rapoport, glucose fuel cells will be able to get all the sugar it needs from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) surrounding the brain. CSF also contains very few cells, so the fuel cells cannot stimulate an immune response and since only a small amount of glucose used by the fuel cell so any impact to brain, it will be tiny.