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A microchip to control glucose: Glucowizzard

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DiabetesForo
04/16/2010 2:25 a.m.

A tiny microchip will prevent diabetics from having to prick to control glucose

The American Biorasis laboratory has patented a tiny microchip capable of continuing continuous blood glucose concentration, and sending radio information to an external device.The system, which will enter the clinical phase in just over a year, is called Glucowizzard.

The chip contains a complete chemical laboratory inside, and has a thickness of half a millimeter and a length of just half a centimeter, which facilitates its implementation under the patient's skin through a simple hypodermal needle.The company researchers recommend that it be implanted under the skin of the wrist.Once placed in place, you will begin your task of monitoring glucose levels for a year, after which it must be replaced.The patient must carry a clock -like bracelet, in charge of receiving the radio signals sent by the chip and stores blood readings and shows them on a small LCD screen (liquid crystal).

The wrist device feeds solar cells installed in the chip, firing light pulses through the skin.You can also send the information wirelessly to various devices such as mobile phones, electronic agendas, and even laptops, so that the patient has their vital statistics per day, second to second.

The sensor chip uses an enzyme that releases electrons, whose amount depends on the level of blood glucose.If the readings are too high, the wrist device issues an alert so that the patient takes measures, and can even contact an emergency service.Biorasis researchers also expect to integrate the platform formed by the sensor plus the wrist receptor into various types of insulin dispensers, which at the precise moment would receive a wireless signal.

At the moment, the Glucowizzard platform is being used successfully in laboratory animals, and has shown that it is possible to have diabetes with continued readings. This is not the first attempt of the pharmaceutical industry to achieve an implantable system that measures levelsof glucose, but the previous experiences failed, because it was necessary to cross the skin with electrodes, and in many cases the organism rejected the implant.Both problems have been solved with this microchip that sends information through radio waves, and that is covered with a layer that prevents rejection.

Glasses capable of measuring glucose concentration
Another research, less advanced but equally promising, is the one directed by Professor Jin Zhang, a biochemical engineer from Western Ontario University in Canada.This researcher has developed contact lenses capable of measuring changes in diabetic glucose concentration, and reflecting them through a simple color change.The measurement method, uncertainty, is carried out from the glucose contained in tears.The invention of Professor Zhang, is based on nanoparticles that are embedded in the hydrogel of the lentillas.Diabetes patients who wear them will only have to look periodically in a small hand mirror.

According to the color of the contact lenses, they will know if everything is in order, or if a risk situation is approaching, and to what degree.This investigation has aroused the interest of the Foundation for the Innovation of Canada, which has decided to grant the project a subsidy of $ 210,000.This nanoparticle technology admits various applications in the food industry.A plastic sheet containing nanoparticles sensitive to certain gases or moisture could be used in packagingFood, because with a simple color change it would be a reliable indicator of the food conservation status.

Diabetes is one of the most common diseases of the 21st century.More than 200 million people around the world suffer from it, and when uncontrolled it can have fatal consequences for the body.Hence the importance of knowing blood sugar levels at all times.To do this, diabetics are forced to practice a puncture, usually on a finger, to extract a drop of blood that then place in a reactive strip or in a personal analysis system.In most cases the diabetic must perform this test several times a day to know the evolution of blood glucose concentration.

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DiabetesForo
04/16/2010 7:52 a.m.

Very promising the microchip.Hopefully he does not drown in that lagoon in which all the advances usually perish, and that it is located just between the researcher and the patient.
The lentillas already gives me more yuyu.What Celia was missing, that the eyes change her color: shock:

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Sherpa41
10/28/2013 4:30 a.m.

I re -upload this thread because there seems to be forum people who say that this chip is implementing in Spain.

Does anyone have more information?On the Glucowizzard website there is little, although it is very interesting, especially that the chip lasts 3 months (unlike the week or 15 days of the other continuous methods) and that the reader is a kind of bracelet watch, also more practical than current continuous meters.

En 1922 descubrieron la insulina, en 1930 la insulina lenta. ¿Que c*** han hecho desde entonces?

  
farstar
10/28/2013 5:33 a.m.

That paints well, because it needs spare parts and maintenance, and it is just what pharmaceuticals want of us.

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ajd
11/02/2013 7:11 a.m.

Totally agree with you Farstar, the more "gadgets" take the best market for them (pharmaceuticals).From there to reach the people of the street there is a world.
A few days ago I read in an "El País" article, I think it was, that only 5% of Spaniards with type 1 diabetes have in 2013 insulna bomb and that the next years the economic requirements to put them will be the main thing to be the main thing.
Personally I am bored to read news of "possible" advances that then never reach the people of the street.

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DiabetesForo
08/20/2015 5:38 p.m.

Very good Owash news, hopefully the FDA approves it and not forgotten as many other ventures.
After the years one tires of believing in certain technological advances with so much handle to our disease and false promises.
Hopefully it is not just for a few privileged and the price is reasonable in case it goes on the market.
greetings

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Sherpa41
08/20/2015 5:58 p.m.

Owash wrote this in April 2010, so a lot of hurry are not taking place.

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En 1922 descubrieron la insulina, en 1930 la insulina lenta. ¿Que c*** han hecho desde entonces?

  
DiabetesForo
08/20/2015 9:39 p.m.

Well, I have already sent you an email in case the flies, we will see if they deign to answer.
Often negotiate has mounted on the cost of our illness no longer know what more invent to take away the pasta. That if little by little and in the long term something that they enrich themselves enough.

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jconegar
08/20/2015 9:56 p.m.

We are food for thousands of people, if they dedicated a little more to transplant or cure it would not be bad either.

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Sherpa41
08/21/2015 12:07 a.m.

Afterego said:
Well I have already sent them an email in case the flies, we will see if they deign to answer.
Often negotiate has mounted on the cost of our illness no longer know what more invent to take away the pasta. That if little by little and in the long term something that they enrich themselves enough.

You will tell us what they tell you.

En 1922 descubrieron la insulina, en 1930 la insulina lenta. ¿Que c*** han hecho desde entonces?

  
aranzazuleg
08/31/2015 10:22 a.m.

And if the invention arrives in Spain, the SS will pay?PQ if we have to pay badly, we are sure that they are not € 10 per month ...

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DiabetesForo
12/12/2016 10:53 a.m.

Some of this has told me the medical delegate of Roche Diagnostics, his "novelty" this year is a sensor that implants the endocrine and (I think) lasts about 9 months.So it seems that they have already finished throwing it.The implantation is made by your doctor, the sensor is paid by your pocket.How strange, right?
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Sherpa41
12/12/2016 12:23 p.m.

The Glucowizard is a pass because it is a superpequeña needle as seen in the photo of the first message of this thread and should not bother anything, instead Roche Diagnostics has drawn the Eversese which is like a large capsule and that is also inserted under the skin so it is terribly annoying and when taking it out it leaves you a scar and the arm of the arm made dust.


And if it were not enough, you also have to put a patch like the other CGM.

En 1922 descubrieron la insulina, en 1930 la insulina lenta. ¿Que c*** han hecho desde entonces?

  
Artorias
12/12/2016 5:39 p.m.

It is that the transmitter of the Eversese is huge, much more billet than Dexcom that is to say (look at the photo compared to the free: Link

And the sensor lasts only 90 days ... then another miniopere and put another.

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Eversese is an abortion, there is nowhere to take it, sincerely.

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Regina
12/25/2016 2:34 a.m.

But the glycowizard is already in the market?

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