Examples and Applications
The development cycle in medicine is extremely long, up to 20 years, because of the need for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals, therefore many of monitoring medicine solutions are not available today in conventional medicine.
- Blood glucose monitoring
- In vivo blood glucose monitoring devices can transmit data to a computer that can assist with daily life suggestions for lifestyle or nutrition and with the physician can make suggestions for further study in people who are at risk and help prevent diabetes mellitus type 2 .
- Stress monitoring
- Bio sensors may provide warnings when stress levels signs are rising before human can notice it and provide alerts and suggestions.
- Serotonin biosensor
- Future serotonin biosensors may assist with mood disorders and depression.
- Continuous blood test based nutrition
- In the field of evidence-based nutrition, a lab-on-a-chip implant that can run 24/7 blood tests may provide a continuous results and a coumputer can provide nutritaion suggestions or alerts.
- Psychiatrist-on-a-chip
- In clinical brain sciences drug delivery and in vivo Bio-MEMS based biosensors may assist with preventing and early treatment of mental disorders
- Epilepsy monitoring
- In epilepsy, next generations of long-term video-EEG monitoring may predict epileptic seizure and prevent them with changes of daily life activity like sleep, stress, nutrition and mood management.
- Toxicity monitoring
- Smart biosensors may detect toxic materials such mercury and lead and provide alerts.
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