Can someday cells in your body connect to your smartphone?

With recent research, scientists think it is possible.

The Internet of Things era is rebelling in a very powerful way - a refrigerator connected to the Internet, a TV connected to the Internet, and a sports bracelet connected to the Internet. However, these wearable devices are only capable of tracking the floating part of the iceberg with the health name only. That's why researchers hope in the future to be able to observe people more comprehensively - by monitoring our cells.

According to an article exported in Nature Communications, the researchers have devised a way to reprogram cells that allow them to identify electronic signals. What does this mean? That is one day in the near future, you can monitor cells through your smartphone.

How does it work? This system works by using redox molecules, allowing electrons to travel through the biological system thanks to a series of chemical reactions. These redox molecules can change from one state to another by electrodes.

When genetically altering some of the body's bacterial cells, the scientists were able to control how these bacteria produced proteins, so that the research team could "turn on and off." ", activating or disabling these bacterial cells.

This is not the only application of this study. Another example is that scientists can directly affect many microbial cells.

Although this experiment is only in the early stages, however, researchers have figured out the invention of an automated system that is better able to monitor your health than any other bracelet sports are on sale in the market.

This system can be integrated to keep track of your normal activities, but it does much more than that - perhaps someday you will receive a notification on your smartphone that a unit Dangerous disease has been detected in your cells and it has also been completely cured - without your knowledge, all thanks to these programmed cells.