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Smart Pilles -The Pilles that Navigates By Mohideen Basha Philips Research in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has developed a prototype for a pill that can be programmed to navigate toward a specific trouble spot in the body and deposit its medicine there, radioing dispatches to the doctor as it travels. The technology, now being tested in animals but not yet in humans, may one day be used to treat digestictract disorders like colities and crohn's disease. This iPill, a plastic capsule that is to be taken with food or water, is intended to travel through the digestive system naturally, typically within about 24 hours, dispensing its medicine at specific locations along the way. About the size of a plump multivitamin, the iPill is one third medicine and two-thirds microprocessor, battery, antenna and other miniaturised equipments. The pill can send data to a control station about temperature, for example, and the time that has elapsed since it was swallowed. And the medical staff can then respond. You could put a drug to treat coln cancer or irriable bowl sysndrome at a selelct location in G.I. tract with great fedility. It could be the next step in theraphy.

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