The Intestinal Submarine Olympus Unveils the First Camera in a Pill to Diagnose and Treat Disease As It Navigates the Gut

Popular Science - Vol. 267 Nbr. 3, September 2005

Pacella, Rena Marie
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Today the best tool for spotting trouble lurking in the small intestine is the so-called camera pill. Swallow the capsule, which is about the size of a big jellybean, and it slips passively through the gastrointestinal tract, snapping pictures at random along the way.

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The Intestinal Submarine Olympus Unveils the First Camera in a Pill to Diagnose and Treat Disease As It Navigates the Gut

Today the best tool for spotting trouble lurking in the small intestine is the so-called camera pill. Swallow t...



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