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Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for measuring blood glucose

28 pointsby ivewonyounglast Monday at 2:48 AM5 commentsview on HN

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analog31last Monday at 3:44 AM

I've worked in this business. Non-invasive blood glucose monitoring has been a holy grail of analytical science for 50+ years. I've known two people who have gone bankrupt trying to do it.

The spectrum contains signatures of hundreds of compounds. All of the variation has to be accounted for. It's actually a ridiculously hard problem.

Still, holy grails being what they are, I'm still excited when I see that someone is giving it another chance.

spwa4last Monday at 8:26 AM

Wasn't Apple working on this?

zacianlast Monday at 3:33 AM

Having a diabetic father, who has been using pricks for the last 20 years. This would be really amazing to see this work. And I hope this can provide 24 hour glucose monitoring to see the fluctuations.

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