ingestible medical devices

High-tech packaging developed by engineers in the MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory can protect an ingestible capsule as it navigates the GI tract and performs complex diagnostic and therapeutic tasks. Illustration by Valerie Morgan
Removing Another Barrier to Addressing GI Tract Diseases With A New Ingestible Capsule
High-tech packaging developed by engineers in the MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory can protect an
Using light to help break down ingestible medical devices
MIT engineers demonstrated a bariatric balloon that can be inflated in the stomach and then
Monitoring the stomach for up to a month with an ingestible and expanding pill

Soft, squishy device could potentially track ulcers, cancers, and other GI conditions over the long

Ingestible electronics could be made possible using mid-field wireless power

Small sensors or drug delivery devices could reside in the GI tract indefinitely. Researchers at

Battery you can swallow could enable future ingestible medical devices

Non-toxic, edible batteries could one day power ingestible devices for diagnosing and treating disease. One