Bioengineers' Sweat Sensor Monitors Glucose
From: Medical Design Technology - 10/13/216

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are sweating the small stuff
in their efforts to develop a wearable device that can monitor an
individual's glucose level via perspiration on the skin.

In a study recently published online in the journal Sensors and Actuators B:
Chemical, Dr. Shalini Prasad, professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson
School of Engineering and Computer Science, and her co-authors demonstrated
the capabilities of a biosensor they designed to reliably detect and quantify
glucose in human sweat.

The UT Dallas textile-based sensor detects glucose in the small amount of
ambient sweat on a person's skin.

Their design works with volumes of sweat less than a microliter, which is the
approximate amount of liquid that would fit in a cube the size of a salt
crystal.

The technology also provides a real-time response in the form of a digital
readout.
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Links:
Shalini Prasad
http://ecs.utdallas.edu/research/researchlabs/BMNL/personnel.html
https://be.utdallas.edu/people/facultypages/prasad.html

Bioengineers create sweat-based sensor to monitor glucose
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-bioengineers-sweat-based-sensor-glucose.html

Bioengineers Create Sensor That Measures Perspiration to Monitor Glucose Levels
http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2016/10/13-32235_Bioengineers-Create-Sensor-That-Measures-Perspirat-_story-sidebar.html

No blood, just sweat and tears for diabetes care
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-blood-diabetes.html

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