A team from the Norteamerican University of Northeastern has created a tattoo that can measure sugar and blood sodium levels through a special application on a mobile phone.The tattoo is not visible to the naked eye, and is composed of droplets of a special 120 nanometers in diameter.These drops have a fluorescent pigment that is activated in the presence of glucose or sodium ions.The mobile phone is an iPhone modified with 3 LEDs that make the pigment shine, and a filter in front of the camera that eliminates any other light other than the fluorescence emitted by the tattoo.Diabetics could measure glucose levels at any time of the day.The current procedure requires puncturing the skin to get a drop of blood.We are getting closer to the tricorder.
Although this news seems that it is of that "cyclical" news (from time to time they appear again as if they were new ...) today I have re-founded with it and seeing that it is not repeated in the forum I bring it.
A few days ago I bought a pulseioximeter for my father ... a simple pot unless it could not;It measures you the oxygen saturation by changing blood color: shock: with technique called spectocrome I nose ... Why do we do not have something remotely similar?: Evil ::?:(
The idea is good, but from time to time we will have to "recharge" the tattoo, right?
By the way, in some conversation a long time ago, it came out that when we are high the blood is denser and when we are low the blood is more liquid ... could not be measured in a non -invasive way?: Shock: Let's see if any scientist, Juan Luis;) or someone, such a break is invented.
Well, in relation to this, I think that they have not really drawn nothing non -invasive for the measurement of blood cellIn which we live, he is capable of anything with the sole purpose of earning more money ......
Surely if very powerful people were affected by this disease, they would soon take out one or more non -invasive measurement systems, as well as to insulin the body, also in a non -invasive way ... I am convinced of it!
I do not know if it happens to you, but when I am very high (300 or more) the drop of blood is "perfect" very round ... instead when I am with sugar under the blood of the drop it spreads through theFinger ... The same is because of the issue of density that Owash has said ... yetartificial would be one step
Miembro del equipo de moderación del foro DM1 desde 1988 Mamá de 2 niños y a la espera del tercero Bomba + Dexcom
Already, those ideas go through our heads ... but look at what multinationals have interests in diabetes: Bayer, Johnson and Johnson, Roche, Abbott, Becton Dickinson
Exactly I do not know figures but the percentage of profits with diabetes of those multinationals is or small or very small, they have such amount of interests scattered by all areas of medicine that "losing" that income for hiding a technological advance is not, norFrom afar, a problem for them.
There is already a system to measure the blood glycemia index, through infrarojos.The USA was presented in a clog.But they bought it or bought a multinational, so as not to lose the business of reactive strips.
It is what there is .... that you have to endure.
I understand, at least in my case, that a simple system, of blood glucose control would increase at least 60 % at least the quality and control of diabetes.
I am not so apocalyptic in terms of the vision of why nothing reaches the market in semi or non -invasive systems.I think that research, technology and technical progress is (and has always been) unstoppable, and neither Bayer nor Roche nor any of these companies governed by some evil Lord Sith with dark and undetectable face under its black hood will be able to stop it.I think it is an obvious premise.The rest is literature and urban legends.
From there, as far as I know, there are no non -invasive systems because what has been tested so far does not have from the necessary criteria of precision and accuracy in the measurement, and in the subject that concerns us,That is a sine qua non condition so that it can be validated by the FDA or the EU.Apparently there are too many biological conditions or even external to the person who greatly influence when capturing those glucose values by non -invasive route.And hence none of the systems tested so far are fruitful.On the other hand, it seems that the semi -invasive ones are gradually entering, such as Guardian or Dexcom*, both with a slow but progressive implementation, not only by individuals with possible who are buying them, but also (and this to meIt seems important) by hospitals that are using them as Holter type monitoring, which are already checking their benefits first hand and the possible improvements in the treatment of their monitored patients.
I think it is a matter of time that we can see things, but it is true that sometimes you are discouraged seeing that what really interests us in diabetes does not seem that it is achieved (stem cells, non -invasive continuous monitoring systems, closed handle pumps…).
Come, go.Let's not be pessimistic !!!!
* (I worry about not knowing anything about the Navigator of Abbott, which even he had abandoned. I hope it has not been so)
