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Wearable sensors detect what’s in your sweat: New easy-to-make sensors can provide real-time measurements of sweat rate and electrolytes and metabolites in perspiration

August 19, 2019 Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Computers and Internet, Detectors, Diet and Weight Loss, fitness, Healthy Aging, Mobile Computing, Wearable Technology

Needle pricks not your thing? A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, is developing wearable skin sensors

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Cellular soldiers designed to kill cancer cells that get loose during surgery

July 25, 2019 Biochemistry, breast cancer, cancer, Civil Engineering, Colon Cancer, Electricity, Engineering, Prostate Cancer

Cellular soldiers created using the body’s own defenses can track down and kill escaping cancer cells during surgeries, preventing metastasis

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‘Blink’ and you won’t miss amyloids: Engineering team just found new way to see proteins that cause Alzheimer’s, other diseases

August 31, 2018 Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's Research, Biochemistry, Civil Engineering, Dementia, Huntington's Disease, Medical Devices, Medical Imaging, Physics

Tiny protein structures called amyloids are key to understanding certain devastating age-related diseases. Aggregates, or sticky clumped-up amyloids, form plaques

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Wearable device measures cortisol in sweat

July 22, 2018 Civil Engineering, Detectors, Diseases and Conditions, Medical Devices, Mental Health Research, Sports Science, Wearable Technology, Workplace Health

The hormone cortisol rises and falls naturally throughout the day and can spike in response to stress, but current methods