Diagnostic Tattoos: Needle-ttle Help With Your Diabetes?

If Massachusetts researchers are right, diabetics around the world may soon be racing to a tattoo parlor near you — so they can be stuck with a needle LESS often!

Using nano-technology, researchers at Draper Labs are developing a tattoo ink that changes color based on glucose levels within the skin, eliminating the need for most painful blood sugar testing.

That’s great news — but here, at JNJ, we don’t want the research to stop with tattooes for diabetics.  Here’s some other ideas we’d like to see developed, utilizing the power of ink . Then we could assess our patients instantly, just by glancing at their arms and ‘reading’ what they pictures tell us. (more…)