[Diabetes-Talk] Non-invasive blood sugar measurement from Apple supplier Rockley.

[Sheila]

thank you for posting this. I will be watching this closely.

On 7/14/2021 12:25 PM, Eileen Scrivani via Diabetes-Talk wrote:
> I got the below from an Apple list I am subscribed to and thought others on this list would have an interest in it as I do.
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> Eileen ...
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> By Ben Lovejoy at:
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> https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/14/non-invasive-blood-sugar-measurement/
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> Non-invasive blood sugar measurement has been described as the holy grail of consumer medical tech, and an Apple supplier has now formally announced its
> solution. It says it is now moving into the test phase.
> The first stage will be a standalone wristband, but the hope is that the tech will make it into future Apple Watch models …
> Background
> We reported earlier on the company’s work on a new generation of health sensors .
> Apple is listed as the largest client of Rockley Photonics, an electronics company working on a system that uses similar sensors to the existing Apple
> Watch ones, but with many more capabilities […]
> This UK electronics startup is developing a unique spectrometer-on-a-chip platform capable of detecting blood pressure, glucose, hydration and alcohol
> levels from the wrist […]
> The existing Apple Watch sensors use a mix of infrared and visible light to measure both heart rate and oxygen saturation. Rockley is working on more sensitive
> versions of these sensors, which would be capable of measuring other things.
> Non-invasive blood sugar measurement announcement
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> Rockley has today officially announced the system.
> Rockley Photonics, a leading global silicon photonics technology company, today revealed its complete full-stack, “clinic-on-the- wrist” digital health
> sensor system.
> Rockley’s sensor module and associated reference designs for consumer products integrate hardware and application firmware to enable wearable devices to
> monitor multiple biomarkers, including core body temperature, blood pressure, body hydration, alcohol, lactate, and glucose trends, among others […]
> The sensor non-invasively probes beneath the skin to analyze blood, interstitial fluids, and various layers of the dermis for constituents and physical
> phenomena of interest. Such biomarkers have historically been measurable only by using bench-top equipment.
> [The tech] will be used in a sequence of in-house human studies in the coming months.
> The company says that it expects first-gen versions to be available for commercial use from the first half of next year.
> As we’ve noted before, there’s no guarantee as yet that the trials will be successful, nor that Apple will use it in Apple Watches, but it’s a safe bet
> that this is one of the Cupertino’s key goals for the product.
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