No More Finger Pricks? - Georgetown College

Georgetown University, Gentag, Inc. and the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) have joined forces to develop a noninvasive method for glucose measurement.

The three technology leaders agreed to combine their respective intellectual property and expertise to create a new method of monitoring glucose by using disposable skin patches with wireless sensors and cell phones.

The resulting products could eliminate the need for the finger-pricking use of lancets to draw blood from people of all ages with diabetes, researchers say.