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Home > News > Tattoo Tracks Sodium and Glucose via an iPhone Need to track your blood oxygen levels? There may soon be an app for that.

July 26th, 2011

Tattoo Tracks Sodium and Glucose via an iPhone Need to track your blood oxygen levels? There may soon be an app for that.

Abstract:
Using a nanosensor "tattoo" and a modified iPhone, cyclists could closely monitor sodium levels to prevent dehydration, and anemic patients could track their blood oxygen levels.

Heather Clark, a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeastern University, is leading a team working to make this possible. The team begins by injecting a solution containing carefully chosen nanoparticles into the skin. This leaves no visible mark, but the nanoparticles will fluoresce when exposed to a target molecule, such as sodium or glucose. A modified iPhone then tracks changes in the level of fluorescence, which indicates the amount of sodium or glucose present. Clark presented this work at the BioMethods Boston conference at Harvard Medical School last week.

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