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Tuesday  Jun 21, 2005

A Sweet Prick for Diabetes Monitoring

_38225270_300testing.jpgWe know that tattoos have some serious clout in the art world, but recently the BBC reported that tats could be gaining recognition in the medical arena too. Researchers at Texas A&M have designed a tattoo that responds to blood-sugar levels, replacing pinprick tests for people with diabetes. Once perfected, the tattoo will allow glucose levels to be monitored round the clock, and could allow an alarm system that would warn the diabetic if their glucose levels were to fall dangerously...It is made of polyethylene glycol beads that are coated with fluorescent molecules. Because glucose displaces the fluorescent molecules, the level of fluorescence is high when bodily glucose levels are low.

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