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Video of the Week #62 September 27th, 2012:
From:Electronics Sensors that Dissolve Could Keep Tabs on the Body from the Inside by Larry Greenemeier at Observations.
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Source: Anne Lukeman, University of Illinois
The advent of dissolvable, biocompatible sutures was a great boon to the biomedical field. Now comes “bioresorbable electronics including transistors, diodes, wireless power coils, sensors and even a 64-pixel digital camera”, meant to perform their function and then dissolve, leaving no trace within the body.