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In a new study published in Scientific Reports, investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory report that an ingestible electronic capsule, complete with a capsule-sized antenna capable of receiving a radio signal wirelessly, can safely power a device in the gastrointestinal tract in preclinical models. The new work makes wireless medical electronics for treating the gastrointestinal tract one step closer to reality.
[...] This work describes the first example of remote, wireless transfer of power to a system in the stomach in a large preclinical animal model -- a critical step toward bringing these devices into the clinic," said co-corresponding author Carlo "Gio" Traverso, MD, PhD, a gastroenterologist and biomedical engineer at BWH.
Other medical devices -- such as cochlear implants or neural probes - use a well-established technique known as near-field coupling to deliver power wirelessly. But ingestible devices must be small enough to be swallowed and, moreover, lie a significant distance from the surface of the body, making this technique unattainable for most gastrointestinal electronics. A new technique known as mid-field coupling provides an alternative way to deliver power to deeply implanted devices. Mid-field coupling operates at higher frequencies to deliver power two to three times more efficiently.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 01 2017, @06:00PM (2 children)
You're waiting for nonobots. Package up half a million little bots in a capsule, take the capsule like a Tylenol, the capsule dissolves, and the nanobots get to work fixing everything. They'll take on the role of any blood cell, as needed, they'll distinguish between benign and malign foreign bodies, and actively fight invasive germs/bacteria/parasites/whatever. And cancer - cell by cell, they'll root out the cancer, and dispose of it.
Yeah, when the nanobots arrive, they can be blended into some yogurt, if you prefer. It won't matter how you ingest them. If preferred, they can be injected instead of ingested.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @06:22PM (1 child)
Completely missed the point, senile old man. I would explain how badly you failed reading comprehension, but explaining things to you is futile since you are incapable of understanding anything. Die.
(Score: 2) by tfried on Monday May 01 2017, @08:16PM
My god, I'm defending runaway...
Yes, his post is mostly orthogonal to your - if that's what we shall call it - point. You do need to catch up on your consumption of popular sci-fi before posting similar rants on this site, though. Now go google nanoprobes.