Researchers have developed a tattoo ink that could provide real-time updates on your body's health. You would have the ink tattooed onto your body and the tattoo would then change color according to the amount of the activating agent present. A tattoo using the ink designed to respond to glucose levels, for example, would change color from blue to brown your blood sugar level rises. https://futurism.com/color-changing-tattoos-could-help-millions-monitor-their-health-in-real-time/
Australian company Microbio has been awarded a Federal Government Accelerating Commercialisation Grant to commercialise a new diagnostic assay to rapidly identify 26 of the most common pathogens that cause bloodstream infections and sepsis. The InfectID-Blood Stream Infection (BSI) diagnostic
assay is a real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) identifies the
pathogen causing the infection in about two hours to enable patients to be
treated with targeted antimicrobials in a timely manner. Sepsis kills around 11 million people around the world
each year. | https://microbio.com.au/news-and-events/
DNA has been the predominant information storage medium for biology and holds great promise as a next-generation high-density data medium in the digital era.Researchers from Columbia University have demonstrated a new approach that can directly convert digital electronic signals into genetic data stored in the genomes of living cells. That could lead to a host of applications both for data storage and beyond, says Harris Wang, who led the research published in Nature Chemical Biology.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4
