{"id":911665,"date":"2026-10-01T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911665\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:36:10","slug":"engineers-connect-health-wearables-and-implants-using-the-body-as-the-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911665\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Connect Health Wearables and Implants Using the Body as the Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newswise \u2014 Using the human body to transmit signals, Georgia Tech engineers have created a wireless networking system that allows tiny implantable sensors and actuators to communicate with each other as well as wearable devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their system means devices can work together like never before, sensing in one part of the body and triggering a therapeutic response elsewhere\u00a0\u2014 perhaps releasing medicine or stimulating a nerve.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adz5300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Described Sept. 24 in the journal Science<\/a>, their communication method is expandable to include multiple interconnected devices across the body, even deep inside the stomach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2026\/09\/engineers-connect-health-wearables-and-implants-using-body-network\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story on the College of Engineering website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original release: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.research.gatech.edu\/2026\/09\/24\/engineers-connect-health-wearables-and-implants-using-body-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/news.research.gatech.edu\/2026\/09\/24\/engineers-connect-health-wearables-and-implants-using-body-network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newswise \u2014 Using the human body to transmit signals, Georgia Tech engineers have created a wireless networking system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5442,64,63,6824,5443,13344,500,32272,5440,105,479154],"class_list":["post-911665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-all-journal-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-biotech","tag-engineering","tag-georgia-institute-of-technology","tag-healthcare","tag-healthspan","tag-newswise","tag-technology","tag-wearable-technologybiomedical-engineeringbiosensorsnerve-stimulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}