Transistor can adhere to internal organs like tape

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UChicago researchers’ design makes stable, suture-free medical monitoring in body possible

Sticking an implantable sensor to the surface of a beating heart usually requires suturing around the periphery of the sensor or copious amounts of adhesive layered between the sensor and the heart. In both cases, such a sensor rarely has tight, uninterrupted contact with heart tissue, limiting the data that clinicians can collect on a patient’s heart function. Read

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