• Tomorrow’s Smart Pills Will Deliver Drugs and Take Biopsies Ingestible electronics can sense and act inside the gut One day soon, a doctor might prescribe a pill that doesn’t just deliver medicine but also reports back on what it finds inside you-and then takes actions based on its findings. • Instead of scheduling an endoscopy or CT scan, you’d swallow an electronic capsule smaller than a multivitamin. • As it travels through your digestive system, it could check tissue health, look for cancerous changes, and send data to your doctor. • It could even release drugs exactly where they’re needed or snip a tiny biopsy sample before passing harmlessly out of your body. • This dream of a do-it-all pill is driving a surge of research into ingestible electronics: smart capsules designed to monitor and even treat disease from inside the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. • GI diseases affect tens of millions of people worldwide, including such ailments as inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease, and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
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- Tomorrow’s Smart Pills Will Deliver Drugs and Take Biopsies Ingestible electronics can sense and act inside the gut One day soon, a doctor might prescribe a pill that doesn’t just deliver medicine but also reports back on what it finds inside you-and then takes actions based on its findings. Instead of scheduling an endoscopy or CT scan, you’d swallow an electronic capsule smaller than a multivitamin. As it travels through your digestive system, it could check tissue health, look for cancerous changes, and send data to your doctor. It could even release drugs exactly where they’re needed or sn
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