{"id":160948,"date":"2023-03-24T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/researchers-create-artificial-enzyme-for-fast-detection-of-disease-related-hormone-in-sweat"},"modified":"2023-03-24T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:23:05","slug":"researchers-create-artificial-enzyme-for-fast-detection-of-disease-related-hormone-in-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/researchers-create-artificial-enzyme-for-fast-detection-of-disease-related-hormone-in-sweat","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create artificial enzyme for fast detection of disease-related hormone in sweat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-artificial-enzyme-for-fast-detection-of-disease-related-hormone-in-sweat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have developed a handheld sensor that tests perspiration for cortisol and provides results in eight minutes, a key advance in monitoring a hormone whose levels are a marker for many illnesses including various cancers.<\/p>\n<p>Findings were published in the journal <i>ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces<\/i>. The material and sensing mechanism in the new device could be easily engineered to detect other specific hormones, the researchers say\u2014for example, progesterone, a key marker for women\u2019s reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took inspiration from the natural enzymes used in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/blood+glucose+meters\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood glucose meters<\/a> sold at pharmacies,\u201d said Larry Cheng, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science. \u201cIn glucose meters, specific enzymes are applied to an electrode, where they can capture and react with glucose molecules to generate an electrical signal for detection. However, finding natural enzymes for cortisol detection is not straightforward, and natural enzymes are prone to instability and have a short lifespan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have developed a handheld sensor that tests perspiration for cortisol and provides results in eight minutes, a key advance in monitoring a hormone whose levels are a marker for many illnesses including various cancers. Findings were published in the journal ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160948","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}