An in-body networking system for communication between wearable and implantable therapeutics.
A tissue-based in-body network system achieves over 10 times greater communication coverage than Bluetooth in rats, enabling coordinated wireless motor control.
- Why it matters: Effective communication among implantable and wearable devices is limited by current methods that struggle to penetrate tissue efficiently and often require bulky components, hindering advanced therapeutic applications.
- What they did: The team engineered a bioelectronic communication platform inspired by ionic signaling, using tissue as a conductive medium with transient electric fields to activate devices via specific transistor circuits, tested in vivo in rats.
- The result: This system enables full-body, wireless sensor networks and neural interfaces that coordinate complex motor functions, paving the way for more efficient, minimally invasive therapeutic devices.