From IIT-M: Capsule In Body Counts Calories, Diagnoses Cancer

Sensors in capsules that can wirelessly communicate data from within the body are getting smarter.

Researchers from IIT-Madras and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL) are working on an ingestible capsule that will stay put in the body - potentially for close to a week - with sensors that will take readings of an individual’s calorie intake, eventually help in diagnosis of diseases such as cancer and allow for sustained delivery of drugs.

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