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posted by chromas on Tuesday November 23 2021, @11:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the dirty-quip dept.

Science Daily:

A team of University of Arizona researchers has developed an ultra-thin wireless device that grows to the surface of bone and could someday help physicians monitor bone health and healing over long periods. The devices, called osseosurface electronics, are described in a paper published Thursday in Nature Communications.

[...] The outer layers of bones shed and renew just like the outer layers of skin. So, if a traditional adhesive was used to attach something to the bone, it would fall off after just a few months. To address this challenge, study co-author and BIO5 Institute member John Szivek -- a professor of orthopedic surgery and biomedical engineering -- developed an adhesive that contains calcium particles with an atomic structure similar to bone cells, which is used as to secure osseosurface electronics to the bone.

It's not for that kind of bone.

Journal Reference:
Cai, Le, Burton, Alex, Gonzales, David A., et al. Osseosurface electronics—thin, wireless, battery-free and multimodal musculoskeletal biointerfaces [open], Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27003-2)


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday November 23 2021, @07:58PM

    by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 23 2021, @07:58PM (#1199003) Journal

    I'm ignorant and curious. What about this makes the research verboten? It doesn't take a rocket scientist/designer to see that machine human hybrids are on the horizon.

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