Now, Test Glucose With Contact Lens

Scientist has developed a new technology that could allow non-invasive testing for glucose via a contact lens that samples its levels in tears. Blood testing is the standard option for checking glucose levels. There’s no noninvasive method to do this. It always requires a blood draw. This unfortunately the state of the art. However, glucose is a good target for optical sensing, and especially from what is known as surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy. This is an alternative approach, in contrast to a Raman spectroscopy based noninvasive glucose sensor researcher developed. Researchers developed a tiny device, built from multiple layers of gold nanowires stacked on top of a gold film and produced using solvent assisted nanotransfer printing, which optimized the use of surface enhanced Raman scattering to take advantage of the technique’s ability to detect small molecular samples. The device enhances the sensing properties by creating narrow gaps within the nanostructure which intensify the Raman signal. The contact lens concept is not unheard of – Google has submitted a patent for a multi sensor contact lens – which is said to have various other applications too.

Why Acne Is Likely To Keep Your Skin Young

People who suffer from acne may have better protection against the signs of aging, such as wrinkles and skin-thinning, a new study has claimed. Scientists have found that people who have had acne are likely to have longer telomeres in their white blood cells. Telomeres are repetitive nucleotide, sequences found at the end of chromosomes that protect them from deteriorating during the process of replication. Telomeres gradually break down and shrink as cells age, eventually leading to cell death, which is a normal part of human growth and ageing. The study measured the length of white blood cell telomeres in 1,205 twins from the TwinsUK cohort. A quarter of the twins reported having experienced acne. Analyses adjusted for age, relatedness, weight and height showed that telomere length in acne sufferers was significantly longer, which means that white blood cells are better protected from the usual deterioration with age.

11 More Nations OK Dengue Vaccine

Sanofi Pasteur, Sanofi’s vaccines unit, on 4 October that its dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, had received market approval in 11 countries. To date the vaccine has been approved in Mexico, The Philippines, Brazil, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Guatemala, Peru, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by four virus serotypes (1 to 4) as categorized by the World Health Organisation. Overall, the disease is seen as a threat to about half of the world’s population. The WHO in April this year had endorsed the world’s first ever vaccine for dengue fever, which spurred several developing nations to license the vaccine. With this new tool in hand, public health communities in dengue endemic countries now have additional means to achieve the WHO objective for 50% reduction in mortality and 25% reduction in morbidity due to dengue by 2020.

A Secret Code To Spread Hate Online

People are using a secret code to discuss the far right without being censored by social networks. A new language has been developed online which attempts to facilitate racist discussions that go unnoticed by the automated tools usually used to block them. And by making that same language go mainstream, the far-right internet users hope that they can damage companies by associating them with racist slang. Twitter users and those on other networks are attempting to use a whole range of words – like Google, Skype and Skittle – in place of traditional racist slurs. The code appears partly to be intent on hiding the messages from the view of automated monitoring by the networks themselves. Since the words used are innocent and common, it would be next to impossible for any network to actually isolate the words themselves.

Some of the words appear to be connected to previous racist discourse – the word “skittle” to mean someone who is Muslim or Arab appears to be a reference to the idea, referenced by a recent Donald Trump Jr tweet that refugees from predominantly Muslim countries are akin to an assortment of sweets, difficult to search for a few “poisonous ones”. In fact, many of the users appear to reference Trump in the recent tweets. Though none of them has actually been endorsed by the campaign. “Google” doesn’t appear to have come to life as a codeword so much as the opposite: a move by 4chan users to intentionally associate the word with racism. That emerged during what people called “Operation Google” – by using the name of the company as if it were a slang word for black people, users hoped to encourage the search engine to ban its own name. That was launched in response to Google’s Jigsaw, which uses AI to stop harassment and abuse online. Given that the system was powered by artificial intelligence, users pointed out, it would be possible to trick it into making false associations so long as words were used in the right context.