{"id":212307,"date":"2025-04-24T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/wearable-device-tracks-individual-cells-in-the-bloodstream-in-real-time"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:11:13","slug":"wearable-device-tracks-individual-cells-in-the-bloodstream-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/wearable-device-tracks-individual-cells-in-the-bloodstream-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Wearable device tracks individual cells in the bloodstream in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wearable-device-tracks-individual-cells-in-the-bloodstream-in-real-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at MIT have developed a noninvasive medical monitoring device powerful enough to detect single cells within blood vessels, yet small enough to wear like a wristwatch. One important aspect of this wearable device is that it can enable continuous monitoring of circulating cells in the human body. The technology was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44328-025-00032-3\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in npj Biosensing.<\/p>\n<p>The device\u2014named CircTrek\u2014was developed by researchers in the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group, led by Deblina Sarkar, assistant professor at MIT and AT&amp;T Career Development Chair at the MIT Media Lab. This technology could greatly facilitate early diagnosis of disease, detection of disease relapse, assessment of infection risk, and determination of whether a disease treatment is working, among other medical processes.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas traditional blood tests are like a snapshot of a patient\u2019s condition, CircTrek was designed to present real-time assessment, referred to in the <i>npj Biosensing<\/i> paper as having been \u201can unmet goal to date.\u201d A different technology that offers monitoring of cells in the bloodstream with some continuity, in vivo flow cytometry, \u201crequires a room-sized microscope, and patients need to be there for a long time,\u201d says Kyuho Jang, a Ph.D. student in Sarkar\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at MIT have developed a noninvasive medical monitoring device powerful enough to detect single cells within blood vessels, yet small enough to wear like a wristwatch. One important aspect of this wearable device is that it can enable continuous monitoring of circulating cells in the human body. The technology was reported in npj Biosensing. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212307","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}