Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/C6W1G5qLp8W/ Your smartphone may soon have the ability to rapidly determine the level of sugar or other compounds in your blood and in other bodily fluids.  The secret: magnetism and your phone’s built in compass.   Physicists at Colorado’s National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a smart hydrogel with embedded magnetic particles.  The hydrogel is fabricated as a test strip to contract or expanded in response to the levels of glucose in its suspending liquid.  As the hydrogel’s shape changes, its micromagnets trigger shifts in the phones magnetometer which a custom app interprets as levels of glucose.   Very clever and adaptable for rapidly measuring a variety of biological substances without complex laboratory machinery at a very low cost….. Someday soon. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/fascinating-way-measure-glucose-phones-compass-2024a10007ee?ecd=a2a #smartphone #magnetometer #hydrogel #glucose