Bio Spectrum - June 2016
English | 68 pages | True PDF | 12.3 MB
English | 68 pages | True PDF | 12.3 MB
Imagine a very tiny capsule injected just below the skin of your arm. The capsule has a sensor capable of continuously measuring blood glucose levels and sends the information to your phone. Well, let’s spice it up one level above the notch. Say, when the blood glucose level crosses its threshold, visualize the tiny little capsule releasing a dose of insulin in your blood stream. What this does is offer total freedom from regular needle pricks to measure blood sugar levels, and frees patients from the anxiety of taking the right insulin doses at the right time.
This is the emerging new wave of Theranostics.