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It's a fart-measuring pill:
Scientists often hope to break ground with their research. But a group of Australian researchers would likely be happy with breaking wind.
The team developed an ingestible electronic capsule [open, DOI: 10.1038/s41928-017-0004-x] to monitor gas levels in the human gut. When it's paired with a pocket-sized receiver and a mobile phone app, the pill reports tail-wind conditions in real time as it passes from the stomach to the colon. The researchers, led by Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh of RMIT University and Peter Gibson of Monash University, reported their invention Monday in Nature Electronics.
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:28PM
That was an unfortunate choice of words. I meant "fresh" to mean "viable stem cells that can be triggered to develop into whatever cells are needed". I didn't mean to imply that placental or embryonic cells were necessary. In view of the controversy over stem cell research in this country, it was a very poor choice of words. ;^(