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imec Presents 1st Millimeter-scale Wireless Transceiver for Electronic Pills

It is the first breakthrough in imec’s aspiration to realize autonomous ingestible sensors that can measure health parameters.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

At ISSCC 2020, imec presented the first mm-scale wireless transceiver for smart insertable pills. It is the first breakthrough in imec’s aspiration to realize autonomous ingestible sensors that can measure health parameters such as gut health and transmit in real-time the data outside the body. Digestive processes and gastrointestinal diseases are hard to diagnose. Current procedures like endoscopic inspection and stool sample analysis are uncomfortable and only provide one-time observations....

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