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Photo of the Week - Medical Device Flows Through Blood Vessels


February 28, 2012 By

At last week's International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Stanford Engineer Ada Poon demonstrated a medical device that patients can swallow. This tiny, wirelessly powered, self-propelled device is capable of controlled motion through a fluid – blood, to be exact. And it's small enough to travel through blood vessels, Stanford University news reported.

Shown above is the current prototype chip resting on a hand; it is only three millimeters wide and four millimeters long.

Photo by Steve Fyffe


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Scotty    |    Commented February 29, 2012

Where does Dennis Quad sit?


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