Thought for the month
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
Thomas Huxley, Scientist (1825-95).

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Meltaway electronics
Biocompatible electronic
devices that dissolve harmlessly into their surroundings after
functioning for a precise amount of time have been created by a team of
biomedical engineers at Tufts University and the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. These transient electronic devices are very thin
conventional circuits encapsulated in silk proteins, extracted from silkworm
cocoons. Aimed at producing a generation of medical implants that would never
need surgical removal the researchers have demonstrated the new platform by
testing on rats a thermal device designed to monitor and prevent post-surgical
infection.
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