Eat your electronics, boost your health

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Eat your electronics, boost your health

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Working out what might be going wrong inside your gut can involve invasive tests. What if you could swallow a pill to monitor your health instead? Engineers are developing miniaturised, ingestible electronics to diagnose, monitor—and even treat—medical conditions. In the future, these electronics could even be made entirely from food.

Guests and hosts:

Giovanni Traverso of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
David Adam, a journalist for The Economist
Reza Ghodssi of the University of Maryland
Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor

Topics covered:

Gastrointestinal disorders
Medical technology
Targeted drug delivery

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