Battery-Free Implantable Biosensor
March 31, 2020 | Terry Sharrer
Implantable biosensors are relatively large devices that have to be surgically replaced once their battery power runs out. Electrical engineers at the National University of Singapore may have a better solution: an extremely small (0.90 mm in width) biosensor—small enough to be implanted under the skin by hypodermic needle—that has RFID capability for transmitting to a handheld, external device. So far, this is only a prototype device, but it may ultimately have such capabilities of measuring glucose among other characteristics of blood chemistry. MORE
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