Futurity February 22, 2024
A new wireless pacemaker, powered by light and thinner than a human hair, can be implanted to regulate cardiovascular or neural activity in the body, researchers report.
The featherlight membranes can be inserted with minimally invasive surgery and contain no moving parts.
Millions of Americans rely on pacemakers, small devices that regulate the electrical impulses of the heart in order to keep it beating smoothly. But to reduce complications, researchers would like to make these devices even smaller and less intrusive.
As reported in the journal Nature, the results could help reduce complications in heart surgery and offer new horizons for future devices.
“The early experiments have been very successful, and we’re really hopeful about the future for this translational...
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