Spyware That Tests for Diabetes?
MSGI Security Solutions, which "serves the needs of counter-terrorism,
public safety, law enforcement, and commercial security," has moved
into a new area: diabetes detection. In fact, it has developed a
handheld sensor that detects diabetes by measuring the level of
acetone in the breath. The device, which employs carbon-based chemical
sensors that detect organic vapors, is based upon nano sensors that
NASA originally developed to make scientific measurements during space
missions.
How does a sensor that detects acetone serve to diagnose diabetes?
Because people with diabetes are resistant to insulin or don't produce
it at all, their bodies are unable to move glucose from their
bloodstream into their cells for energy. When the starved cells call
for more glucose, the liver gets into action, converting fat into
glucose in a process called gluconeogenesis ("gluco" = glucose; "neo"
= new; and "genesis" = production). Gluconeogenesis produces
substances called ketones. Ketones break down into three basic
compounds, one of them being acetone, which then ends up in the
breath.
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