Smart skin patch offers a painless, simpler alternative to blood sampling

[Hurricanelover]

Smart skin patch offers a painless, simpler alternative to blood sampling
By Ben Coxworth
August 20, 2025

Nobody likes having blood samples taken, which is why it's always good to hear about possible alternatives. One of the latest takes the form of a self-powered skin patch that painlessly gathers biomarker chemicals for up to 24 hours at a time.

Not only is the blood-sample-drawing process painful – and "icky," for many people – it also only shows which tell-tale biomarkers are present in the bloodstream at the time the sample is taken.

If doctors want to see all of the biomarkers that may come and go throughout the day, they have to draw multiple samples over a 24-hour period. What's more, analyzing those samples can be a complex affair, as it involves separating blood components such as platelets and red blood cells.

Smart skin patch offers a painless, simpler alternative to blood sampling

Nobody likes having blood samples taken, which is why it's always good to hear about possible alternatives. One of the latest takes the form of a self-powered skin patch that painlessly gathers biomarker chemicals for up to 24 hours at a time.

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Good. **** needles.

 

[Dekster]

Needles generally aren't so bad. A lot depends on the person using it.

 

[MisterBeale]

I'd rather have my blood drawn and my bio-metric data kept private via HIPAA laws. . . .

. . though ever since the pay-pal mafia has had access, who knows?

 

[1srelluc]

What, and miss out on the nice looking female technician with the "huge tracts of land" that usually does my blood draw. Oh hell no!