{"id":138077,"date":"2022-04-13T13:06:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/this-temporary-tattoo-can-monitor-diabetics-glucose-levels-as-accurately-as-a-finger-prick"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:06:38","slug":"this-temporary-tattoo-can-monitor-diabetics-glucose-levels-as-accurately-as-a-finger-prick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/this-temporary-tattoo-can-monitor-diabetics-glucose-levels-as-accurately-as-a-finger-prick","title":{"rendered":"This Temporary Tattoo Can Monitor Diabetics\u2019 Glucose Levels as Accurately as a Finger Prick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-temporary-tattoo-can-monitor-diabetics-glucose-levels-as-accurately-as-a-finger-prick2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Engineers from the University of California, San Diego <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2015-01\/uoc--tto011415.php\">have developed an ultra-thin temporary tattoo<\/a> that can painlessly and accurately monitor the glucose levels of diabetics.<\/p>\n<p>The flexible device costs just a few cents and lasts for a day at a time, and early tests have shown that it\u2019s just as sensitive as a finger-prick test.<\/p>\n<p>But even cooler is the fact that the system works without blood, by extracting and measuring the glucose from the fluid in between skin cells, and could eventually be adapted to detect other important metabolites in the body, or deliver medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 Engineers from the University of California, San Diego have developed an ultra-thin temporary tattoo that can painlessly and accurately monitor the glucose levels of diabetics. The flexible device costs just a few cents and lasts for a day at a time, and early tests have shown that it\u2019s just as sensitive as a [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138077","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=138077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}