This contact lenses breakthrough could enable glucose monitoring

Transparent biosensors in contact lenses – made visible in this artist’s rendition – could soon help track our health. [Image from Jack Forkey/Oregon State University]

Biosensing contact lenses may not be able to self-heal like “The Terminator,” but they could measure blood glucose and detect other signs of disease in the future.

Oregon State University researchers are set to present a study that suggests transparent biosensors that are embedded into contact lenses could provide insight for doctors and patients without the need for invasive blood tests.

“These biosensors probably won’t put blood labs out of business.But I think that we can do a lot of diagnostics using information that can be extracted from tear drops in the eye,” said Oregon State University chemical engineering professor Gregory S. Herman in an American Chemical Society press release.

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