Inside Precision Medicine September 21, 2022
Engineers at Stanford University have created a wearable sensor device that can be adhered to the skin to measure the changing size of tumors below. Known as FAST for “Flexible Autonomous Sensor measuring Tumors” the technology is a battery-operated device that can capture changes to a one-hundredth of a millimeter (10 micrometers) in real-time and provide those measurements via a smartphone app. The sensor might provide an efficient means for cancer drug screening. A paper describing the device is published in Science Advances.
Historically, preclinical studies in mice often involve subcutaneously implanted tumors underneath the skin of mice. “That allows you to test a ton of different tumor types and drugs in a very easily accessible tumor,” explained Alex Abramson,...
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