Could Swallowable Cameras Replace The Colonoscopy?

For reasons that are never made completely clear, gastroenterologist Mitchell Conn keeps a hard-sided case under his desk at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Coiled inside is a nine-foot long scope that, according to Conn, represented the height of gastrointestinal technology in the 1990s.

“This was how we would do small bowel endoscopy,” he says, pulling the tube out of its protective padding.

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