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Skin-deep microneedle sensor tracks drug clearance and reveals early kidney and liver dysfunction

Square microneedle sensor begin held by hand wearing blue Latex gloves
The new microneedle sensor provides continuous, minimally invasive monitoring in skin. “We show that measurements taken just a millimeter beneath the skin can reveal clinically actionable information about organs deep inside the body,” said UCLA professor Sam Emaminejad.

Wearable technologies are starting to reshape how people manage health. Continuous glucose monitors that measure blood sugar levels in diabetes patients have already shown the power of tracking an important molecule in real time. The next leap is to track other medically important molecules. However, doing so is far more difficult because most of those molecules are present at much lower concentrations than glucose.

One area such wearable technologies could transform is drug therapy...

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