Bioengineering Banter: Microscale transmitters
Images of "Fantastic Voyage" were going through my head as I read this current article in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Scientists have recently made a microscale capsule containing a transmitter (also known as a "smart pill") that can broadcast its location in the body. While there is no crew steering this capsule, it is an important advance in bioimaging as existing methods for communicating with electromagnetic & imaging devices suffer from limitations brought on by surr
Monthly microbes: seasonal bacteria
Many of us are lucky enough to live in a society where we can, at many times, eat whatever food we would like, whenever we would like. Not so for the Hadza community, that lives near the Serengeti. They are one of the last hunter/gatherers that live solely off what they can find or kill all year round. Scientists have been studying this community of foragers for quite some time for everything from sleeping patterns to how they find their food, as this gives some clues as to
