Last year the FDA approved the first artificial pancreas for general use, designed to automatically monitor and inject insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes. Now a team at Harvard has developed an even more sophisticated system than connects to a patient’s smartphone and learns their habits.
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Tattoos are fast becoming more than just a means of self-expression: soon they could be fitted with practical applications. Now, a team from Harvard and MIT has developed a smart ink that could make for tattoos that monitor biometrics like glucose levels, and change color in response.
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Launched late last month, Fitbit's Ionic is the company's attempt at claiming some territory from smartwatch heavyweights like Apple and Garmin. Now the feature-packed wearable is set to gain a handy new piece of functionality, with the ability to display glucose levels on the user's wrist.
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Diabetes is a data-driven disease, with patients inundated with information to monitor. The One Drop system is designed to let people manage diabetes through an integrated app, smart meter and supplies service, and New Atlas spoke to the company’s founder, Jeffrey Dachis, to find out how it works.
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Love it or hate it, Swedish scientists have another reason for you to finish your broccoli: sulforaphane, an antioxidant found in the vegetable, could be Nature’s secret weapon against Type 2 diabetes, offering obese patients a way to slash their blood glucose levels and fight the disease.
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A team of biomedical engineers at Duke University has developed a heat-sensitive biopolymer that could mean diabetics need as little as one injection a month to control their glucose levels.
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Unlocking the secrets that sweat contains could come to offer all kinds of exciting ways to maintain our physical well-being. Researchers have developed a sweat-monitoring patch that records glucose in a subject and even releases diabetes drugs into the bloodstream to keep its levels in check.
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In what could spell the end of daily finger-pricks and meticulous blood sampling for diabetics, Japanese scientists have developed a non-invasive blood-glucose monitoring method that relies on far infrared light, which the researchers say is harmless and offers unprecedented levels of accuracy.
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Australian scientists have developed an electrically conductive contact lens with the potential to host miniature computer displays and sensors to help monitor health.
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Researchers at Virginia Tech claim to have created a method to produce hydrogen fuel using a biological technique that is not only cheaper and faster than other methods, but also produces hydrogen of a much higher quality ... and all from the leftover stalks, cobs, and husks of corn.
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