Flowbio specialises in sweat analysis for athletes and their S1 device is one of a handful of wearable sweat sensors that have come onto the market in the past few years. Although sweat is mostly water and salt, it is also dripping with biomolecules that can provide all sorts of useful insights about what is going on inside our bodies. “Sweat is data,” says Flowbio’s head of research and development, Roeland Mingels. And now the race is well under way to put that data to good use. Aimed at people who sweat a lot in the course of their jobs – athletes and manual workers – they are also available to the general public, and, in the not-too-distant future, similar devices could be collecting all manner of health-related information from regular Joes. To find out more, New Scientist’s Graham Lawton visited Flowbio’s London office to get his sweat on, in the name of science.
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