from heart to gut. New Scientist reports on a new “electronic tattoo” that picks up noises inside the human body, including “sounds made by the heart, muscles, and gastrointestinal tract.” The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign research team behind the electronic tattoo believe it “could be useful for monitoring a broad range of medically significant sounds,” including “keep[ing] tabs on biological implants [and] alerting doctors to potential medical issues or mechanical failures.”
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