Suite of Ingestible Devices Opens Window to the Gut Nervous System, Microbiome.

Key Points

• The aim is to investigate how ingestible devices can monitor gut neural signaling and microbiome interactions.
• Utilized ingestible capsules to capture gut-related data.
• Applied sensing technologies to monitor gut neural activity.
• Employed optogenetics to manipulate and observe microbiome dynamics.
• Successfully detected neural signaling within the gut.
• Revealed changes in the microbiome influenced by neural activity.

Abstract