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SUMMARY:Counting molecules\, dodging blood cells: continuous\, real-time m
 olecular measurements directly in the living body - Professor Kevin Plaxco
 \, University of California\, Santa Barbara
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CONTACT:George Malliaras
DESCRIPTION:The availability of technologies capable of tracking the level
 s of drugs\, metabolites\, and biomarkers in real time in the living body 
 would revolutionize our understanding of health and our ability to detect 
 and treat disease.Imagine\, for example\, a dosing regime that\, rather th
 an relying on your watch (“take two pills twice a day”)\, is instead g
 uided by second-to-second measurements of plasma drug levels wirelessly co
 mmunicated to your smartphone. Such a technology would likewise provide cl
 inicians an unprecedented window into organ function and could even suppor
 t ultra-high-precision personalized medicine in which drug dosing is optim
 ized minute-by-minute using closed-loop feedback control. Towards this goa
 l\, we have developed a biomimetic\, electrochemical sensing platform that
  supports the high frequency\, real-time measurement of specific molecules
  (irrespective of their chemical reactivity) in situ in the bodies of awak
 e\, freely moving subjects
LOCATION:EE Seminar Room\, CAPE\, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue\, Cambridge\, CB3 0F
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