Apple creates a team formed by biomedical engineers to treat diabetes

Apple has created a group of biomedical engineers to work on the development of a project to treat diabetes.According to the CNBC, this team will be developing sensors that will allow the blood sugar levels to be monitored.

This system could be a great advance in the control and treatment of the disease for millions of people, and would convert devices such as Apple Watch into essential elements.

The Cupertino company has tried to keep the project secret, and for this it has placed the team of engineers in small offices located in Palo Alto (California), quite far from the central headquarters of Apple.These scientists are developing a project that Steve Jobs himself tried to launch before his death.

The sensors in which they work can monitor in a non -invasive way and continue blood sugar levels to better treat diabetes.If it works, it could assume the end of the annoying punctures that people with diabetes must be done to control their glucose levels.The sensors would shine a light through the skin to measure glucose indications.

Scientists would have worked on this project for at least five years.Apparently, the project is quite advanced and Apple has already carried out viability tests in clinical sites through the San Francisco Bay area.They have also hired consultants to discover the regulatory routes.

Steve Jobs wanted to get portable devices such as smartwatchs to control important vital signs, such as oxygen levels, heart rate and blood glucose.

In 2010, Apple silently acquired a company called COR, related to health and well -being sensor technologies.One of those responsible would later join the Apple Watch team.

According to CNBC, about thirty people work in the project, among scientists who develop optical sensors and those responsible for the Apple Watch team.

For Apple, that this project is successful, it can assume that its smartwatch goes from being a luxury product to an essential device for people with diabetes.In addition, they believe it would also serve to stimulate other research in the medical field.

Let's not lose hope

If a few years ago they tell us that the heart pulsations could be measured with a light from a wrist watch, we would probably have said: impossible.

There was also a company, K´ Watch q has been working on the same for a while.But for now nothing.On the network if there is someone who offers something, they are scams.

We will have to be patient!

jldiazdel said:
let's not lose hope

If a few years ago they tell us that the heart pulsations could be measured with a light from a wrist watch, we would probably have said: impossible.

There was also a company, K´ Watch q has been working on the same for a while.But for now nothing.On the network if there is someone who offers something, they are scams.

We will have to be patient!

There is a company that has a bracelet that measures glucose.It is called Helawear, and it is real and is marketed.