Researchers Develop Health Monitoring Smart Tattoo Ink
Researchers at Harvard and MIT have developed smart tattoo ink which finds dehydration and changes in blood sugar levels, the New York Daily News reports.
There are no plans to pursue clinical trials or to create DermalAbyss as a product, but the ink to show the possibilities of monitoring to observe glucose levels was created by scientists.
"The function of the work would be to light the creativity of biotechnologists and stimulate public support for such attempts," said Nan Jiang, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. "These concerns of how technology affects our lives must be considered as closely as the look of these molecular sensors patients can presumably take embedded in their own skin."
Color changes based upon the chemistry of this hydrogen, glucose, pH and sodium ions within the fluid and therefore are weightless and may be utilized without charging or electricity.
"We're thinking: New technologies, what is the next generation after wearables?" Ali Yetisen, a Tosteson postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, added. "So we developed the idea that we could incorporate biosensors in the skin."
