Disposable Silicon for Continuous Biomarker Monitoring
Driven by current market demands for increasingly cost-effective methods to managing chronic disease, current diagnostic paradigms have largely exploited microfluidic innovations to reduce size, complexity, and bill-of-materials. Although this might seem like the ideal end-all solution, these paradigms are not easily adapted to the challenge of continuous biomarker sensing, particularly utilizing body-adorned platforms. Leveraging the semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure and the versatility afforded by MEMS processing, in particular, a new class of inexpensive and disposable body-adorned biomarker sensors is beginning to emerge. This talk will introduce Biolinq’s MEMS-enabled microarray sensor technology, worn as a 7-day skin-adhered patch, that is able to stream the user’s metabolic chemistry without accessing blood and in a completely pain-free manner. This unique capability empowers users to not only better manage chronic conditions, but understand the causality linking their daily lifestyle activities – diet, physical activity, stress management, sleep – and the impact of said activities on the user’s metabolic health.