5 Topic Commentaries

Kidney Testing Gets Under the Skin

Kidney Testing Gets Under the Skin

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  Sam Emaminejad, PhD

  Wearable biosensors and bioelectronics

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  UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

  We show that measurements taken just a millimeter beneath the skin can reveal clinically actionable information about organs deep inside the body.

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  Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD

  Nanomaterials and biosensors

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  Washington University in St. Louis, McKelvey School of Engineering

  This metal-organic framework encapsulation is a simple and highly effective way to create microneedle sensors that are resilient to environmental challenges...

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  Michael Daniele, PhD

  Wearable and implantable biosensors; microfluidics

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  North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  This is called dermal interstitial fluid (ISF), and it contains almost all of the same biomarkers found in blood.

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  Joseph Wang, DSc

  Wearable sensors, electrochemistry, nanoengineering

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  University of California San Diego

  We are developing a lab just under the skin.

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  Mark R. Prausnitz, PhD

  Drug delivery and microneedle technologies

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  Georgia Institute of Technology

  We’d like to make this microneedle-based technique available to the research community to make ISF routinely available for study.

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