Key Takeaways
- A ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス could bring a level of analysis previously available only in clinical settings to the consumer.
- The ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス focuses on chirality of molecules, a type of asymmetry most commonly seen in the differences between left and right hands that is also present in DNA, amino acids, proteins, sugars and other elements.
- When ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス switch their “handed-ness” it can be a sign of diabetes and, potentially, other diseases as well.
The push to improve at-home medical technology is integral to lowering costs of health care by keeping people out of hospitals and doctors' offices for routine tasks. Diagnostics are an important part of that, allowing people to detect potential diseases earlier when treatment is less invasive and the chance of recovery is higher.
Researchers in the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス type of diabetes test that could bring diagnostic technology only available today at the clinical level to the consumer. It boasts higher accuracy than clinical tests and requires only a small urine sample to deliver a clear reading.
The key to this test — documented in a ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス paper in ACS Nano — lies in a concept called ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス, a type of asymmetry most commonly exemplified by the differences between people’s left and right hands. But DNA, amino acids, proteins and sugars are chiral as well.
The ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス test can detect a shift in the metabolites in the urine sample that boils down to them switching back and forth from left-handed to right-handed. This "abnormal dextrorotatory shift" is induced by diabetes and is relevant to testing other diseases as well.
"Measuring the chirality of biomarkers is an emerging direction for disease detection," said Yuebing Zheng, an associate professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering who led the ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス. "More and more biological ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス has revealed that diseases are correlated with a change in molecular chirality. However, conventional chiral analyses often feature bulky equipment or have limited sensitivity in detecting the abnormal chirality in biofluids associated with diseases."
The ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス test boasts improved accuracy of 84% compared to 72% in clinical diabetes urine tests. And it does that while shrinking down the form factor in a way that could make it accessible to consumers.
ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス has been important in pharmaceuticals for some time. Most drugs include chiral molecules. But it hasn't been applied as extensively to diagnosis, certainly not outside of clinical settings.
"To measure ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス is a very complex procedure that has always required expensive equipment," Zheng said. "We have managed to shrink it down to operate at the point of care."
Clinical tests typically take at least 24 hours to return a result. But this ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス diagnostic responds in seconds. That's because the team created a micro-bubble technique within the test that shepherds the targeted molecules in urine sample quickly to the sensor. Conventional clinical tests rely on the molecules to bind on their own, and that leads to low sensitivity because the molecules don’t always want to bind together. Having the micro-bubble that effectively drags the molecules to the detection spot significantly increases sensitivity.
A discovery made by Zheng and his ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス team four years ago played an important role in creating the ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス detector. In 2017, Zheng published a paper detailing ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス chiral metamaterials. These materials were used to create both the micro-bubble and important aspects of the chiral sensors.
The team is now working on commercializing the discovery. In addition to potentially selling it as an at-home diagnostic ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス, the team could also create a module to sell to clinicians to attach to their existing systems.
The researchers also seek to broaden the application of the ラーメンベット 入金ボーナス to chronic kidney disease and other ailments that involve changes in chirality.
