New Data Supports GlucoModicum's Needle-Free Glucose Monitor

The Helsinki-based start-up has released data demonstrating the efficacy of its magnetohydrodynamic technology and how it could be used to measure blood glucose levels.

A prototype version of GlucoModicum's Talisman device • Source: GlucoModicum

GlucoModicum, developers of a non-invasive method for measuring blood glucose, are touting new data that show glucose measurements taken with the company’s non-invasive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) sampling technology correlate with capillary blood glucose samples.

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