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Heart Rate? Breathing Rate? Swallow This

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An electronic sensor can measure your heart rate and breathing rate from within your gastrointestinal tract, say MIT scientists… but first you must swallow. The ingestible sensor calculates heart and breathing rates from distinctive sound waves produced by the body in its actions, a process described in the published research. Someday, the new sensor could become…

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