Article - Goodbye, finger pricks? Diabetes patients could monitor glucose with lightwaves.

That's probably a long way from market, especially at a remotely affordable price, but yeah, it would be amazing.

A couple of faculty in the university department I work for use a similar methodology for microscopy to analyze fine chemical details and interactions in live cells. It's definitely miniaturizable, and there's a lot of related work being done which might help speed up the research process generally. Something to keep an eye on. 🤓
 
(Tch, the article links to the scientific journal's main page, not the actual study. C'mon guys. I would never do that in my research news articles. :rolleyes:)

Oh, I found it. Ooh, the abstract discusses the lag between blood glucose and interstitial fluids and the problems that causes with less invasive monitoring methods (which we know about from the difference between Libre and blood test results). Their method would measure from the interstitial fluids, not the blood, because of limited laser penetration, but they're working on calibrating the results using algorithms and ... omg, sorry, stopping. Professional curiosity/nerdery, but this is not actually helpful to anyone here.
 
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Oh, and apparently they're running a clinical study right now to test their algorithmic calibration method. Fingers crossed that it works. Apparently that's the real challenge.
Getting optical glucose measurements of any sort is something people have been trying to do since the 1980s,” says Morris, who was not involved in this study. “Usually people report that they can get good measurements one day, but not the next, or that it only works for a few people. They can’t develop a universal calibration system.”
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... and now I really am done. 🤐
 
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