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World’s smallest pacemaker is activated by light: « Tiny device can be inserted with a syringe, then dissolves after it’s no longer needed. »


Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe — and be non-invasively injected into the body. Smaller than a single grain of rice, the pacemaker is paired with a small, soft, flexible, wireless, wearable device that mounts onto a patient’s chest to control pacing.

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