Tag: sensors

  • Iota Biosciences raises $15M to produce in-body sensors smaller than a grain of rice

    Iota Biosciences raises $15M to produce in-body sensors smaller than a grain of rice

    Fitness trackers and heart-rate monitors are all well and good, but if you want to track activity inside the body, the solutions aren’t nearly as convenient. Iota Biosciences wants to change that with millimeter-wide sensors that can live more or less permanently in your body and transmit wirelessly what they detect, and a $15 million…

  • Bioresorbable silicon electronic sensors for the brain

    Bioresorbable silicon electronic sensors for the brain

    Many procedures in modern clinical medicine rely on the use of electronic implants in treating conditions that range from acute coronary events to traumatic injury However, standard permanent electronic hardware acts as a nidus for infection: bacteria form biofilms along percutaneous wires, or seed haematogenously, with the potential to migrate within the body and to…

  • In a brain, dissolvable electronics monitor health

    In a brain, dissolvable electronics monitor health

    From the folds and crinkles of a living brain, a fleeting fleck of electronics smaller than a grain of rice can wirelessly relay critical health information and then gently fade away. The transient sensors, which can measure pressure, temperature, pH, motion, flow, and potentially specific biomolecules, stand to permanently improve patient care, researchers said. With a wireless,…