{"id":122324,"date":"2021-05-06T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-device-can-measure-glucose-in-sweat-with-the-touch-of-a-fingertip"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:24:28","slug":"new-device-can-measure-glucose-in-sweat-with-the-touch-of-a-fingertip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-device-can-measure-glucose-in-sweat-with-the-touch-of-a-fingertip","title":{"rendered":"New device can measure glucose in sweat with the touch of a fingertip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-device-can-measure-glucose-in-sweat-with-the-touch-of-a-fingertip.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/health\/What-is-Diabetes.aspx\" class=\"\">people with diabetes<\/a> endure multiple, painful finger pricks each day to measure their blood glucose. Now, researchers reporting in <i>ACS Sensors<\/i> have developed a device that can measure glucose in sweat with the touch of a fingertip, and then a personalized algorithm provides an accurate estimate of blood glucose levels.<\/p>\n<p>According to the American Diabetes Association, more than 34 million children and adults in the U.S. have diabetes. Although self-monitoring of blood glucose is a critical part of diabetes management, the pain and inconvenience caused by finger-stick blood sampling can keep people from testing as often as they should.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers made a touch-based sweat glucose sensor with a polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel on top of an electrochemical sensor, which was screen-printed onto a flexible plastic strip. When a volunteer placed their fingertip on the sensor surface for 1 minute, the hydrogel absorbed tiny amounts of sweat. Inside the sensor, glucose in the sweat underwent an enzymatic reaction that resulted in a small electrical current that was detected by a hand-held device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people with diabetes endure multiple, painful finger pricks each day to measure their blood glucose. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have developed a device that can measure glucose in sweat with the touch of a fingertip, and then a personalized algorithm provides an accurate estimate of blood glucose levels. According to the American [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}