A team of neuroscientists and engineers has developed a tiny, implantable, closed-loop device that may replace medication or electronic stimulators for bladder disorders.
The team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago created a soft, implantable device that can detect overactivity in the bladder and then use light from tiny, biointegrated LEDs to tamp down the urge to urinate.
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