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Nano-technology is rapidly maturing to help realize bio-chemical sensors that can be implanted in human body with integrated transceivers to share symptoms’ data with each other internally to the body, and with outside world.
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Ahmad, A. (2017). Digital Body. In: Suzuki, J., Nakano, T., Moore, M. (eds) Modeling, Methodologies and Tools for Molecular and Nano-scale Communications. Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50688-3_24
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