Portable Sweat Analyzer For Health Monitoring
By: Ms. Parul Datta
According to prominent science fiction writer, Sir Arthur C. Clarke “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. And in this article I am sharing with you one such recent innovation which could be extremely useful especially because it is related to health and wellness. When we perspire or sweat, sweat glands in our body release fluids that could be analyzed to determine certain health conditions in human beings. This emerging area in medical science is known as sweat diagnostics. Sweat is mostly water, but still some solutes (minor components dissolved in solvent) are present in sweat which relate to biomarkers present in blood. These solutes include sodium, potassium, ammonium, etc. Researchers at EPFL’s Nanoelectronic Device Laboratory...
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