Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

IMPLANTED DEVICES

Bioresorbable spectrometers

Nature Biomedical Engineering volume 3, pages 594–595 (2019)Cite this article

Subjects

Needle-sized photonic devices that slowly dissolve in the body can spectroscopically characterize cerebral temperature, blood oxygenation and neural activity for weeks in unconstrained mice.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: Implantable resorbable photonic spectrometer.

References

  1. Han, S. et al. ACS Nano. 11, 9979–9988 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Curry, E. J. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 115, 909–914 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Shin, J. et al. Sci. Adv. 5, eaaw1899 (2019).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Bai, W. et al. Nat. Biomed. Eng. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0435-y (2019).

  5. Pugliese, D. et al. Opt. Lett. 43, 671–674 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Jugdaohsingh, R. et al. J. Bone Miner. Res. 19, 297–307 (2004).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Ericson, M. E. et al. Minim. Invasive Ther. Allied Technol. 13, 87–94 (2004).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Jermyn, M. et al. Cancer Res. 77, 3942–3950 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Yu, G. et al. Photochem. Photobiol. 82, 1279–1284 (2006).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Yetisen, A. et al. Adv. Mat. 29, 1606380 (2017).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Sarah Forward, Sheldon J. J. Kwok & Seok-Hyun Yun

  2. Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Seok-Hyun Yun

Authors
  1. Sarah Forward
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Sheldon J. J. Kwok
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Seok-Hyun Yun
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Seok-Hyun Yun.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Forward, S., Kwok, S.J.J. & Yun, SH. Bioresorbable spectrometers. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 594–595 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0441-0

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0441-0

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing: Translational Research

Sign up for the Nature Briefing: Translational Research newsletter — top stories in biotechnology, drug discovery and pharma.

Get what matters in translational research, free to your inbox weekly. Sign up for Nature Briefing: Translational Research