Eric Topol

This is unlike a continuous glucose sensor or a lactate sensor.

No reagents, a little tiny bit of electricity.

And then you sense the protein level.

And then you go ahead and you say, okay, let's try this in a diabetic rat model.

And you're looking for specific inflammation proteins like interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor.

And what did you find when you did that?

I was struck by that especially.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

So this is why it was such a landmark contribution, because no one had ever really conceived that this could be possible.

But you actually demonstrated it is more than possible.

You demonstrated it in a very

impressive animal model.

Now, there seems to be limitless clinical applications of this.

I mean, so, you know, if you were trying to monitor if a person's eating an anti-inflammatory diet or they're exercising and they're keeping their body in their low levels of inflammation, which we know inflammaging is such a big part of

how we wind up with these age-related diseases.

This seems like a perfect way in the future that we could assure that a person's inflammatory state, and it doesn't have to be these proteins, it could be pretty much any protein, right?

You could do that in real time.

Now, do you see a way where you could get this signal to your smartphone?

Yeah.