CIC microgune presents in an international workshop techniques for analysing sweat.
-Fernando Benito López, researcher at the Basque Club, will offer a presentation focused on Microfluidic systems can help the development of the analysis of this fluid technology
– event was held passed Tuesday 5 at the National Centre for Sensor Research at Dublin City University (Ireland) and among the speakers were outstanding experts from industry and research
– is the first workshop of this kind that is organized on the sweat, a more substance because of the information that can offer about the State of health of the patient or the performance of the athlete
Spain, March of 2013– the Basque Centre for research into Microtechnologies, CIC microGUNE, participated in a Conference on devices of the sweat which occurred on March 5, at the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR) at Dublin City University (Ireland). This event, entitled ‘ Wearable Sweat Sensing for Sports and Health ’, is the first of its kind that is organized and aims to promote progress in the development of portable sweat sensors.
featured speakers who participated in the meeting researcher at CIC include microGUNE Fernando Benito López, who gave a speech in which he explained how the Microfluidic systems can help the development of the technology of analysis of the sweat. Currently, due to the difficulties to collect sweat and analyze it in situ, are conducted few studies focusing on the analysis of this fluid. In addition, these analyses do not give information in real time and the samples are easily contaminables.
in his speech, Fernando Benito López unveiled how autonomous Microfluidic systems may be able to avoid the mentioned problems thanks to its ability to collect the specimen of sweat at the moment which is generated and transported in a safe way, without suffering any contamination, the sensorial system. By means of a simple electronics, data that the sensor offers can be ‘ translated ’ language that provide direct information and real-time parameter to be measured.
Fernando Benito.
there is a growing interest in science on the study of sweat, since it contains substances that can provide very useful information both in the field of health and sports. Not in vain, it provides information about the hydration and also reveals hormone levels, the presence of drugs, or the measurement of electrolyte levels as chloride and sodium, something very useful in determining diseases like cystic fibrosis, for example. In addition, can also offer information on the effectiveness of energy drinks calls.
in addition to CIC microGUNE, workshop specialists coming from different universities and research centres, as well as a large number of representatives of companies interested in this field, sport, health, engineering, chemistry, biology and nutrition took part showing that economic interest is also growing. The Congress also dealt with issues such as what data can provide the sweat on the status of the athlete or patient, which parameters are important in their analysis and how this substance should be collected without causing discomfort to the patient.
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the workshop has been organized with the support of the scholarship ‘ IRCSET Enterprise Partnership Scheme with Realtime Technologies ’, granted by the Irish Government. A game of such grant will make possible, also, that a researcher of CLARITY Research Centre: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies at Dublin City University make a stay at CIC microGUNE. During the stay will develop in the Basque Center a system Microfluidic for the measurement of the volume of sweat.
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CIC microGUNE is a cooperative research centre specializing in Microtechnologies, which is part of the strategy nanoBasque 2015 of the Basque Government. Is the result of a strategic alliance between the CEIT-IK4, IK4-IKERLAN and TEKNIKER-IK4 research centers and universities Mondragón Unibertsitatea and Tecnun, with the collaboration of the Belgian Research Center IMEC and the backing of the business group for Mondragón.
