Health & Science

摘要

Pacemakers Work Just fine. But logistically they're a nightmare: insertion is invasive, infections are common, and even if they're needed for only a short time, removal requires major surgery. But what if they and other medical devices like them could be replaced with microchip-size monitors that simply dissolved when they were no longer needed? That's the idea behind transient electronics, a new medical technology being pioneered at Tufts, Northwestern and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.