Personalized sweat sensor reliably monitors blood glucose without finger pricks (IMAGE)

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Personalized sweat sensor reliably monitors blood glucose without finger pricks

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A hand-held device combined with a touch sweat sensor (strip at right) measures glucose in sweat, while a personalized algorithm converts that data into a blood glucose level.

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Adapted from <i>ACS Sensors</i> <b>2021</b>, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c00139

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