Break a Sweat: Wearable Sweat Tech Offers New Way to Track Health (IMAGE)

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Break a Sweat: Wearable Sweat Tech Offers New Way to Track Health

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A soft, skin?mounted microfluidic device for capture, collection and analysis of sweat. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 23, 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Koh at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Ill., and colleagues was titled, "A soft, wearable microfluidic device for the capture, storage, and colorimetric sensing of sweat."

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J. Rogers, Northwestern University

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