Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, implanted wireless sensors measuring just one millimeter cubed in the muscles and nerves of lab rats, then used ultrasound waves to extract information from them about how well those parts of the body are functioning. The benefits of the technology for humans, while still largely hypothetical, are promising. Sensors the size of a grain of sand could one day explain what’s happening in your body from the inside out. “Hopefully the [tiny sensors] demonstrate a new direction for the field, and then you could build the consensus that’s needed to drive these forward,” Maharbiz said. “It’s certainly true [new technologies] make it into humans, but it just takes time,” he said.

Source: Washington Post August 04, 2016 21:59 UTC