Soft, squishy device could potentially track ulcers, cancers, and other GI conditions over the long term. MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the... Read more
Small sensors or drug delivery devices could reside in the GI tract indefinitely. Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have devised a way... Read more
Non-toxic, edible batteries could one day power ingestible devices for diagnosing and treating disease. One team reports new progress toward that goal with their batteries made with melanin... Read more