A New Method For Introducing Chips Into The Body

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A New Method For Introducing Chips Into The Body
A New Method For Introducing Chips Into The Body
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The long-awaited new step towards the emergence of cyborgs - creatures that combine a human and a robot.

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A new method for implanting sensors into the human body has been developed at MIT in collaboration with Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital, explains journalist Mark Prigg.

"To make artificially grown tissues voluminous, scientists grow cells on tiny supports that resemble a sponge," the publication says. And now the researchers have supplemented the supports with electronic sensors made from silicon nanowires.

"The sensors can measure electrical vibrations in the tissues surrounding the support, control the doses of drugs to be injected into the body, or track how drugs prescribed for the sample affect the heart," explains the author.

"We are one step closer to creating an artificially grown heart one day in the future," summed up one of the study's authors, Professor Robert Langer (David H. Koch Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The tissues of the heart, neurons and muscles, as well as blood vessels, have already been grown.

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