By integrating microfluidic networks, nano-scale sensors, and electronics, researchers have created implantable, thread-like devices that can be sutured through several layers of tissue in 3-D to gather and send diagnostic data wirelessly as it happens.
Writing the journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering, the team – led by engineers from Tufts University in Medford, MA – says the new “smart thread” diagnostic platform could form the basis of a new generation of implantable medical diagnostics and smart wearable devices.
