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Bioelectronic devices: Gut-powered ingestible biosensors

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A biosensing device that harvests energy from fluids in the gut is able to wirelessly transmit measurements from the gastrointestinal tract of pigs for over six days.

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Figure 1: Ingestible energy-harvesting capsule for monitoring temperature in the gastrointestinal tract of pigs.

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  1. Arianna Menciassi is at the BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, 56127, Italy

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Menciassi, A. Bioelectronic devices: Gut-powered ingestible biosensors. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0050 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-017-0050

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