Next time you visit your physician’s clinic for diagnosis of a casual or recreational activity to serious neurological disorders - like Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease - don’t be surprised if he places some small sensors on your body or cloth.
It may be the newly designed state-of-the-art wireless biosensors, a welcome radical diagnostic technique that can eventually change a variety of circumstances.
Thanks to Vijay Varadan, a distinguished professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering, for researching into the possible applications of biosensors continuously for last two years - leading to these new ‘diagnostic biosensors’.
So, with these new sensors, diagnostic testing will no longer be a laboratory thing, but will move out to get directly in touch with patients.
Placed in the shirt, the biosensors can measure the skin conditions and on the body, different physiological body signs — like temperature and respiration rate.
So, diagnosis of a disease or activity is no more the laboratory-thing.
