Korean researchers develop skin-attached diabetic patch
13-Mar-17, Business Korea
A team of Korean researchers have developed a skin-attached diabetic patch that can measure blood sugar with a small amount of sweat without drawing blood and administer appropriate amounts of drugs by stages according to blood glucose levels.
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The team announced it had developed an integrated system consisting of a measurement patch that can measure blood sugar more accurately with less sweat than current diabetic patches and a drug delivery patch that delivers the appropriate amount of drug step by step
The research team created a smaller and more sensitive sugar sensor with gold with many tiny pores to allow for more accurate measurement of blood sugar with less sweat.