News tagged with blood levels

Biochip measures glucose in saliva, not blood

For the 26 million Americans with diabetes, drawing blood is the most prevalent way to check glucose levels. It is invasive and at least minimally painful. Researchers at Brown University are working on a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tear drops may rival blood drops in testing blood sugar in diabetes

Scientists are reporting development and successful laboratory testing of an electrochemical sensor device that has the potential to measure blood sugar levels from tears instead of blood — an advance ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

'Driving under influence' test inside car will check driver's finger

(PhysOrg.com) -- TK Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Takata Corporation of Japan, manufacturers of safety belts and airbag modules, will partner with TruTouch Technologies to create an in-car detection device ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

First detection of pregnancy protein in older people destined for Alzheimer's disease

In an advance toward a much-needed early diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease (AD), scientists have discovered that older women destined to develop AD have high blood levels of a protein linked to pregnancy ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

For diabetics, spectroscopy may replace painful pinpricks

Part of managing diabetes involves piercing a finger several times daily to monitor blood sugar levels. Raman spectroscopy could let diabetics monitor glucose without those daily pinpricks. In the past, this would have required ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nanoparticle proteomics: Characterizing protein-nanoparticle interactions in biofluids

New insights about how the human body interacts with nanoparticles at the protein level were published by an EMSL user team in the December 2011 issue 23 of Proteomics.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Adapting personal glucose monitors to detect DNA

An inexpensive device used by millions of people with diabetes could be adapted into a home DNA detector that enables individuals to perform home tests for viruses and bacteria in human body fluids, in food ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sotomayor tells how she deals with diabetes

(AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was seven years old and living in the South Bronx when she found she was thirsty all the time. Soon after, she started wetting her bed at night.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers develop paper-thin device to test cholesterol levels

(PhysOrg.com) -- Paper-thin sensors that use the latest technology in miniaturization and printing could revolutionize the way point of care testing is carried out for cholesterol and lead to further applications ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

PSA test for men could get a second life for breast cancer in women

The widely known PSA blood test for prostate cancer in men may get a second life as a much-needed new test for breast cancer, the most common form of cancer in women worldwide, scientists are reporting in a new study in the ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0