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Ingestible sensors to map the gut

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#1 ·
This is cool now but will be life changing, hopefully soon.

"THE HUMAN GUT is a 30-foot-long black box. Well, black tube. For decades doctors have been trying to decode the dark, slimy terrains of the GI tract—probing both ends with cameras and scopes and liters of oral contrast liquid. But those medieval days may soon be behind us.

Ingestible sensors—pill-sized electronics that ping your smartphone with data after you pop and swallow—have started to arrive on the market. They don’t do much yet: Mostly they measure pH, temperature, and pressure or monitor whether or not patients have taken their meds. But researchers are cooking up novel sensing technologies to detect a much broader range of medical molecules.

Like say, cramming millions of genetically engineered glowing bacteria inside a AAA-battery-sized capsule to diagnose stomach bleeds—as demonstrated by scientists in Timothy Lu’s lab at MIT, in a study published Thursday inScience."

https://www.wired.com/story/this-digital-pill-prototype-uses-bacteria-to-sense-stomach-bleeding/
 
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#3 ·
This is/will be different, eventually it will detect blood, bacteria, and a host of other issues in a non invasive manner.
 
#4 ·
I had a pill sized camera that I had to swallow when I was having a medical issue, that was a bit over a year ago, it transmitted it pictures to a device I had to wear around my neck (hung down to my belly) like a sling. No problem swallowing it but it coming out was none too fun.
 
#11 ·
Seriously, colonoscopies are nothing. You sleep through them and there is no after effects. I was worried about my first one too, but there really is nothing to worry about.
 
#12 ·
I had a sigmoidoscopy in the mid 80s, no sedation and it was horrible.Two years ago I had my first colonoscopy, the prep is a bit unsettling but over all it like was nothing. Definitely nothing to worry about.
 
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