Houston researchers' medical device, set for space station test, may help astronauts reach Mars

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Grattoni’s experiment is testing the ability to communicate with the medical implants, which are about the size of a quarter and will be submerged in a saline solution representative of fluids inside the body. Bluetooth and a Raspberry Pi computer on Earth will be used to ping the devices at least once every 10 minutes, perhaps multiple times a minute.

Ultimately, the device could be inserted under a person’s skin in their inner arm or lower abdomen. It would have medicine loaded inside it , and something wearable such as a bracelet or belt would be used to charge the batteries every few months. It can also be used in developing nations, war zones or areas of geopolitical unrest. A patient could call or video chat with their physician, and the doctor could then make remote adjustments to how much medicine is released from the device.But there could be uses in space as astronauts travel farther from home.

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