These Glasses Can Detect If You're Diabetic Using Your Tears

These Glasses Can Detect If You're Diabetic with Just Your Tears

Researchers at the University of São Paulo'south São Carlos Physics Plant take teamed up with the scientists from the University of California'south Department of Nanoengineering, San Diego to develop a biosensor capable of detecting glucose levels in the claret using a person's tears.

To make this possible, the researchers embedded the biosensor into the nose pad of spectacles. Users tin can but clothing the glasses to go started. In addition to glucose, the researchers say that it can also measure the sugar, vitamin, and alcohol levels in the human body.

When tears come in contact with the sensor, information technology analyzes and sends the results to a continued PC or smartphone. The study titled "Eyeglasses-based tear biosensing system: Non-invasive detection of alcohol, vitamins and glucose" got published in the periodical Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

"The concentrations of various metabolites in tears reflect concurrent claret levels, making them an attractive medium for not-invasive monitoring of physiological parameters.", Laís Canniatti Brazaca, a doc and researcher at the São Carlos Chemical science Plant told SciDev.Net.

The aforementioned enquiry squad has developed a biosensor capable of detecting and quantifying biomarker proteins for "clinical diagnosis of neglected diseases and chronic degenerative diseases".

This could help behave exams using just a drib of blood, according to Paulo Roberto Bueno, a materials engineer at the State Academy of São Paulo Chemic Found. The researchers are planning to commercialize this unit in three years. For the glasses-based biosensor though, there is no expected timeline so far.

Then, what do you think of these two concepts for making medical checkups seamless? Let usa know in the comments.

Featured Image Courtesy: Juliane R. Sempionatto Moreto/University of California