The capsule is designed to be swallowed, enter the stomach, emit electrical pulses accordingly, and then be excreted.
We’re about to string together a bunch of strange sentences together, so take a deep breath and start reading slowly.
The ingestible capsule works off a system called fluid-wicking capsule for active stimulation and hormone modulation, or FLASH. The idea behind FLASH is to treat gastrointestinal, neuropsychiatric, and metabolic disorders in the body with electrical stimulation. And the new findings are part of a larger line of work to make this biomedical technology feasible for real human patients.
Traverso and his team thought the electrical stimulation was perhaps creating effects on hormone modulation. They ended up learning this was true—stimulation supported increased release of gherlin, which in turn increases hunger and helps improve food movement throughout the intestines. Perhaps the most novel part about the FLASH capsule is its ability to wick away fluid so that it can maintain contact with stomach tissue and fire off its electrical pulses effectively. And that’s where the lizard skin inspiration comes in. The Australian lizardis known to have a fluid-wicking skin that can absorb water in especially arid habitats. The FLASH capsule’s surface is basically designed to emulate this feature.
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