MIT Researchers Create Ingestible “Bacteria On A Chip” To Monitor Your Guts

A team of researchers at MIT has created a pill-sized ingestible sensor that is essentially a group of genetically engineered “bacteria on a chip” which can detect intestinal bleeding and diagnoses several diseases. A strain of E. coli bacteria was genetically modified to respond to the presence of a chemical compound called “heme” found in red blood […] The post MIT Researchers Create Ingestible “Bacteria On A Chip” To Monitor Your Guts appeared first on Fossbytes.

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