3DPrint.com July 8, 2025
Diagnosing Parkinson’s disease is difficult. Often, early symptoms of the progressive neurological condition may be overlooked, or mistaken for signs of aging. Early diagnosis can help save lives and improve treatment outcomes immeasurably. A team at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has developed an inexpensive way to test for Parkinson’s. If it is cheaper than existing testing and turns out to be accurate, the test could perhaps be adopted widely, helping people get the treatment they need before the inexorable march of Parkinson’s has gone too far.
The test utilizes a 3D printed pen that essentially evaluates your handwriting. A team led by Associate Professor of Bioengineering Jun Chen developed the pen and published a paper about it in Nature...
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