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Microchips embedding a magnetic sensor and a radiofrequency transmitter can be localized in the body of a mouse at submillimetre resolution when under a magnetic field.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Yong Lin Kong & Giovanni Traverso

  2. Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

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Kong, Y.L., Traverso, G. Transmitting location. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 684–685 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-017-0135-4

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