Caltech’s Low-Cost Sweat Sensor Tracks Stress Through Cortisol Levels

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https://www.electronics-lab.com/caltechs-low-cost-sweat-sensor-tracks-stress-cortisol-levels/

From tracking diabetes to the detection of diseases like Cystic Fibrosis, a lot of ideas around monitoring/analyzing human sweat, as a non-invasive method of detecting or monitoring diseases has been around for a while. Leveraging on this idea, a team of researchers at Caltech, led by Wei Gao, assistant professor of medical engineering at Caltech, […]

Measure Stress Levels Using a Smartphone

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https://www.electronics-lab.com/measure-stress-levels-using-a-smartphone/

Researchers have developed a smartphone device that measures the cortisol concentration in saliva in order to define your stress levels. The new test is done in under 10 minutes and there is no need to send a salvina sample on a lab. The cost for each measurement is less than 5$ and the smartphone uses its […]