Flexible Medical Systems
Curated by SignalBio-monitoring products and technologies
Overview
Flexible Medical Systems develops bio-monitoring products and technologies to meet health and fitness needs. The company's product, FlexMed, is a wearable, glucose monitoring sensor for people with diabetes that doesn't draw blood, instead, FlexMed measures glucose levels with tiny electrical signals to the patient's skin. FlexMed's proprietary microchip technology provides access to interstitial fluid (ISF) without using a needle and drawing blood. The outermost layer of the epidermis (stratum corneum) consists of layers of corneocytes with continuous lipid bilayers that effectively contain fluid inside the body. The underlying principle that keeps body fluid in (and external fluids out) is repulsion of aqueous fluid by the lipids in the same way as oil repels water. Flexmed’s proprietary microchip technology temporarily disrupts the continuity of the lipid bilayer with tiny electrical signals, rather like shaking oil and water, allowing fluids to flow through the open channel created across the stratum corneum.
Key facts
- Founded
- 2006
- Headquarters
- Rockville, United States
- Stage
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- Industry
- Life Sciences Technology