Develop new sensors to detect early disease

On April 17, US scientists said they have successfully developed a wrist-sensing device that can detect diseases such as tumors, diabetes and some other diseases through sweat glands. .

The study, co-produced by experts from Stanford University and the University of California, has created a new type of sensor that can sample the user's sweat, identify the components that are later transfer results for analysis and diagnosis via a smartphone.

Hand-worn sensors can diagnose a number of other diseases through sweat glands.

In particular, when using this device, users do not need to sit motionless for a long time to get sweat sampling devices like products that have been developed before. Instead, the structure is a two-part system of induction circuits and microprocessor circuits that attach to the skin, the device will actively stimulate the sweat glands and then sample the sweat to analyze.

Normally, to detect certain diseases such as tumors, the patient must go to the specialist center and sit for about 30 minutes to sample the sweat, while the new device may stimulate the sweat glands to function within A few minutes, then quickly identify the composition of sweat and transfer the data quickly to analyze via mobile phone.

So it can be said that this new invention "is a big step". In addition to the outstanding time advantage, new technology is also said to be able to analyze other chemical components in sweat, a source of very complete and useful health information that is applied Many uses to develop devices that support early detection of human diseases.

The team is preparing to put the device into extensive clinical trials to determine the accuracy of this new sweat induction application . In the long run, scientists expect to put this device into smart watch designs that can be more widely used.