Microbiome Sampling Pill Devices (IMAGE)

Tufts University

Microbiome Sampling Pill Devices

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The pill devices have a soft elastic exterior with sidewall inlets, which are triggered to open by pH levels in the small intestine environment. Elastic microvalves close the inlets once the intestinal microbiome content has been collected.  

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Sameer Sonkusale, Tufts University Nano Lab

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Use permitted in connection with reporting on the research presented in this study (Device Journal: Soft Autonomous Ingestible Device for Sampling the Small Intestinal Microbiome)

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