UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering researchers have developed a wireless wearable ultrasound patch that could be a game changer for real-time monitoring. This ultrasound fully integrated autonomous wearable ultrasonic system-on-patch (USoP) includes a small, flexible control circuit that communicates with an ultrasound transducer array to collect and transmit data wirelessly.

MIT researchers have developed an ingestible electroceutical FLASH capsule that can increase or decrease appetite by stimulating hunger-regulating hormones. They tested it on animals and discovered that this electrical stimulation therapy boosted ghrelin production in their stomach. This suggests that the approach could eventually be adapted to deliver electrical stimulation to other parts of the GI tract.