#implantable sensor

Implantable sensor could measure bodily functions — and then safely biodegrade

Sensors that monitor a patient’s condition during and after medical procedures can be expensive, uncomfortable and even dangerous. Now, an international team of researchers has designed a highly sensitive flexible gas sensor that can be implanted in the body — and, after it’s no longer needed, safely biodegrade into materials that are absorbed by the body.

Researchers say that a flexible and…

Personalized medicine is now one step closer to consumers. Thanks to the tiny, implantable sensors that could give an early warning of a person’s developing health problems – far before symptoms start to surface.  This implantable device uses bio-integrated sensors that cannot be detected as foreign object by the body, a drawback to the previously released implantable devices currently available…