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Low-Cost, Wearable Sweat Sensor Provides New Insights on Your Health

Sweating it out through exercise may be a New Year's resolution but it could also help to provide new insights into the state of your health, according to new sensing technology being developed at Simon Fraser University.

12 Jan 2022

MXene-Based Biosensor Helps Identify Actual Performance Metrics

A research team from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has discovered ultrathin nanomaterials, known as MXenes, that are balanced to make it easier to monitor a person’s well-being by analyzing their pH levels of sweat.

4 Jan 2022

Carbon-Based Biosensor Set to Drive New Innovations in Brain-Controlled Robotics

A novel carbon-based biosensor developed at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is set to drive new innovations in brain-controlled robotics.

23 Dec 2021

Advances to Biosensors Based on Field-Effect Transistors

There has been an ever-increasing need for sensitive and selective electronic biosensors for various applications. Biosensors are analytical devices monitoring a target of interest in real time and are best suited for clinical health care, environmental sensing, drug development, as well as food safety and quality control.

22 Dec 2021

Wearable Sensors are Feasible for Remote Monitoring of People with Complex Health Conditions

Remote monitoring of health-related behaviour with wearable sensor technology is feasible for people with complex health conditions, shows a recent University of Waterloo study.

21 Dec 2021

Novel Hybrid Sensor Could Detect the Virus that Causes COVID-19

Developing new tools to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic is becoming increasingly critical as a fifth wave washes over the global landscape. With infections on the rise, a novel, extremely precise and speedy biosensing method has been identified by MIT researchers who have demonstrated that it would be possible to develop a sensor, based on quantum physics, that could detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

20 Dec 2021