Researchers at Tufts University in the United States and a team of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to work together to develop a project and results of the project presented to the public. They jointly developed the project was triggered by a remote radio signal, by way of heating can eliminate bacterial infections in mice and can be absorbed by the electronic implant. This is made of silk and magnesium dissolved in the device can be harmless test mice. Before this show off only in test tube experiments. This paper has been published in the Journal of the American National Academy of Science.

Expert and professor of biomedical engineering in these schools are considered, this technology is an important demonstration of the continued development of medical devices, the technology appropriate treatment can be performed via the remote start function for patients after completion of therapy can be safely disappeared, no longer back. With this treatment can help doctors better control post-operative infection, and this approach allows physicians to use a wireless form of control patients "drug" in the dose.

Implantable medical devices and unusual, long ago people have begun to widely use. However, in the past we usually use the non-degradable material, because these devices have a limited life, so in the end we still need to remove or replace the device from the body. New wireless therapy device may be treated differently silk proteins so harmless dissolved after a few minutes or a few weeks, when reached according to the doctor.

Each wireless heating device is completely dissolved by the twists and turns of a resistor and a magnesium silk protein layer disposed on the receiving coil power components. Magnesium heater packaged in a silk "pocket" to protect electronic equipment and control its dissolution time.

The device is implanted by Staphylococcus aureus infected mice living tissue, and then activate two sets of 10 minutes of heating treatment by the wireless transmitter. It means the organization collected data in mice 24 hours after treatment, the data show no signs of mice infected with the virus, as well as the surrounding tissue is also considered normal. Equipment is completely dissolved in 15 days, the content of magnesium in the implantation site and the surrounding area with the usual magnesium content in the human body the same level.

Other researchers are still ongoing in vitro, if the experiment is mature, can be added to the implantable device therapy function more diseases. The control by the wireless device can also increase the release of antibiotics and antibiotic activity does not decrease, so that the treatment of patients prone to infections associated disease process has a significant effect.