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A capsule of glowing E. coli will probe your gut for signs of trouble
- unixhero 8y agoWhy would I want to put E.Coli into my digestive system?
- carlmr 8y agoMost strains aren't harmful. You already have buttloads (pun intended) in your digestive system. It even produces Vitamin K for you.
- pazimzadeh 8y agoAbout 1% of your intestinal flora is composed of E. coli. Plus, in the system describes, the E. coli is enclosed in a capsule and won't colonize your intestine.
- tbarbugli 8y agoBeen reading about pill based diagnosis for digestive organs for more than 10 year. Current alternative to this is incredibly invasive and painful and scary as hell!. Is any hospital using similar non invasice technology to run stomach/intestine checks?
- ssorc 8y agoThere are some, e.g. the Medtronic Smartpill for motility testing: http://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/products/motility-testing/smartpill-motility-testing-system.html http://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/products/motility-te...
- kylnew 8y agoHaving experienced gut related issues recently that needed medical diagnosis I appreciate this direction of research wholeheartedly.