20th May 2014

A way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body

Researchers have invented a way to wirelessly beam power to programmable devices deep inside the body. These medical chips could be as small as a grain of rice. They would sit alongside nerves, muscles and other tissues and could be tailored for a range of new medical uses. The wireless power recharging would enable them to be implanted once and repowered as need be. This is a platform technology to enable a new therapeutic category – "electroceutical" devices. Perhaps eventually, these devices could be miniaturised further and shrunk down to the nanoscale, reaching places in the human body that were previously inaccessible.

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