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Sweet solution to sensing

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Glucose meters allow rapid and quantitative measurement of blood sugar levels for diabetes sufferers worldwide. Now a new method allows this proven technology to be used to quantify a much wider range of analytes.

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Figure 1: Sensing a variety of analytes using a glucose meter.

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  1. Samuel K. Sia and Curtis D. Chin are in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 351 Engineering Terrace, 1210 Amsterdam Avenue, New York 10027, USA,

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