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Re:A capsule of glowing E. coli will probe your gut for sign... by tbarbugli on Monday May 28, 2018 @03:17AM (#17171025)
Been reading about pill based diagnosis for digestive organs for more than 10 year. Current alternative to this is incredibly invasive and painful and scary as hell!. Is any hospital using similar non invasice technology to run stomach/intestine checks?
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Re:A capsule of glowing E. coli will probe your gut for sign... by ssorc on Monday May 28, 2018 @03:49AM (#17171141)
There are some, e.g. the Medtronic Smartpill for motility testing:

http://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/products/motility-te...

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