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Beebom (Aug. 20) -- A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an “in-body GPS” system that can pinpoint the location of ingestible implants inside the body using low-power wireless signals. The ability to continuously sense inside the human body has largely been a distant dream. “One of the roadblocks has been wireless communication to a device and its continuous localization,” says Romit Roy Choudhury, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Illinois, who was not involved in the research. “‘ReMix’ makes a leap in this direction by showing that the wireless component of implantable devices may no longer be the bottleneck.” Also: TimesNowNews (Aug. 20)