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Noninvasive glucose monitor named
‘product to watch’
Zhi Xu, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, demonstrates a noninvasive glucose monitor highlighted as one of five pioneering medical products to watch by Medical Product Manufacturing News.
A noninvasive glucose monitor developed by University of Missouri–St. Louis researchers made Medical Product Manufacturing News’ “Five Pioneering Medical Products to Watch” list.
The monitor was listed among an all-in-one catheter, an Alzheimer’s patch and a leadless pacemaker.
The university has licensed patent rights for the device to St. Louis Medical
Devices, Inc., a Missouri company headquartered at UMSL’s own startup company
incubator, IT Enterprises,
to bring the device to market.
The small monitor – about the size of a cell phone – will allow for
pain-free, convenient detection of glucose levels in capillaries of the finger
with no waste (strips, lancets, etc.). It tests blood characteristics by
shining near-infrared light through the finger, detecting the light transmitted
through the targeted area and generating an output signal. A processor receives
the output signals, calculates a change in the magnitude of light power
transmitted through the finger and determines a characteristic of blood – in
this case glucose. Future applications of the device could detect other
characteristics, such as cholesterol.