{"id":205421,"date":"2025-02-03T23:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/new-wearable-sensor-detects-even-more-compounds-in-human-sweat"},"modified":"2025-02-03T23:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:47:43","slug":"new-wearable-sensor-detects-even-more-compounds-in-human-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/new-wearable-sensor-detects-even-more-compounds-in-human-sweat","title":{"rendered":"New wearable sensor detects even more compounds in human sweat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-wearable-sensor-detects-even-more-compounds-in-human-sweat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have ever had your blood drawn, whether to check your cholesterol, kidney function, hormone levels, blood sugar, or as part of a general checkup, you might have wondered why there is not an easier, less painful way.<\/p>\n<p>Now there might be. A team of researchers from Caltech\u2019s Cherng Department of Medical Engineering has unveiled a new wearable sensor that can detect in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+sweat\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human sweat<\/a> even minute levels of many common nutrients and biological compounds that can serve as indicators of human health.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/sensor+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sensor technology<\/a> was developed in the lab of Wei Gao, assistant professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/medical+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical engineering<\/a>, Heritage Medical Research Institute investigator, and Ronald and JoAnne Willens Scholar. For years, Gao\u2019s research has focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/wearable+sensors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wearable sensors<\/a> with medical applications, and this latest work represents the most precise and sensitive iteration yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever had your blood drawn, whether to check your cholesterol, kidney function, hormone levels, blood sugar, or as part of a general checkup, you might have wondered why there is not an easier, less painful way. Now there might be. A team of researchers from Caltech\u2019s Cherng Department of Medical Engineering has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205421","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=205421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}