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New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone In Sweat (ieee.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Today, a team of researchers at Stanford, led by materials science and engineering associate professor Alberto Salleo and postdoctoral research fellow Onur Parlak, announced in Science Advances that they've developed a wearable patch that can determine how much cortisol someone is producing in seconds, using sweat drawn from the skin under the patch. [Cortisol, a steroid hormone, goes up when a person is under physical or emotional strain.] The stretchy patch pulls in the sweat through perforations to a reservoir. A membrane on top of the reservoir allows charged ions, like sodium and potassium, to pass through. Cortisol, which has no charge, can't pass, and instead blocks the charged ions. Signals sent from an electrical sensor in the patch can be used to detect these backups and determine how much cortisol is in the sweat.
The prototype cortisol detection patch channels sweat into a reservoir; a membrane selectively lets charged ions through, and the amount of these ions detected can be translated into a reading of cortisol levels in the sweat. Parlak tested the prototype on several runners, and reported that the cortisol levels detected by the wearable sensor patch matched those obtained by running samples of the runners' sweat through an ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) test that takes several hours.
The prototype cortisol detection patch channels sweat into a reservoir; a membrane selectively lets charged ions through, and the amount of these ions detected can be translated into a reading of cortisol levels in the sweat. Parlak tested the prototype on several runners, and reported that the cortisol levels detected by the wearable sensor patch matched those obtained by running samples of the runners' sweat through an ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) test that takes several hours.
looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!
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So goes GitHub, Son of Git.
I was in the lab when they wanted people to help test if it worked right. We all had sensors attached to our bodies but as a fellow genius, I was thinking outside the box, so I immediately pulled off a sensor and dropped my drawers so that I could test how the sensor reacted to urine but wouldn't you know it, before I even peed on it, everyone else's sensors started going off! It's clear I've made a breakthrough in pee detection technology! ;)
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When he is indicted.
The inventors will get rich selling to the Pentagon. What a tool for Drill Sergeants/Instructors during Basic Training / Boot Camp. No more guesswork as to what recruit's stress level may not be pegged at max.
Scientologists will love this. They can modernize their e-meter.
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Mexico already has excellent man-portable stress hormone detectors.
Finally, a lie detector sensor that genuinely works!
Were you:
A) Actually trying to be funny?
B) Knew you were being retarded and forgot to check AC?
C) Doing a trump impersonation?
I honestly can't tell.
Now we just need to find a super glue that is dissolved by this hormone.
despite Lt. Frank Drebin the smell of fear is a real thing. Dogs and even some people can smell it