Researchers from MIT, Boston University, and elsewhere report a smart pill the size of a blueberry that could be a game changer in the diagnosis and treatment of bowel diseases. That’s because it is the first technology compatible with ingestion that can automatically detect — and report on in real time — key biological molecules that could be indicative of a problem.

The work appears in the Aug. 10 issue of the journal Nature. Other authors of the paper are researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the University of Chicago, and Analog Devices.

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[MIT News, 2023.9.8, https://news.mit.edu/2023/smart-pill-can-track-biological-markers-real-time-0908]