{"id":186633,"date":"2024-04-02T10:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/swallowable-sensors-could-pinpoint-gut-movement-problems-for-patients"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:22:24","slug":"swallowable-sensors-could-pinpoint-gut-movement-problems-for-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/swallowable-sensors-could-pinpoint-gut-movement-problems-for-patients","title":{"rendered":"Swallowable Sensors could Pinpoint Gut Movement Problems for Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swallowable-sensors-could-pinpoint-gut-movement-problems-for-patients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed an ingestible capsule dotted with sensors that can detect pressure in a patient\u2019s guts and detect points of failure.<\/p>\n<p>The ingestible system will give colorectal medical teams an unprecedented understanding of the movement of a patient\u2019s digestive tract, or lack thereof. Instead of simply taking images of inside the guts, the system will sense whether it\u2019s contracting, how much pressure is exerted and exactly where it might be inactive.<\/p>\n<p>The system has been tested in a synthetic gut and animals. A patent for the technology is pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed an ingestible capsule dotted with sensors that can detect pressure in a patient\u2019s guts and detect points of failure. The ingestible system will give colorectal medical teams an unprecedented understanding of the movement of a patient\u2019s digestive tract, or lack thereof. Instead of simply taking images of inside the guts, the system [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}