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Connected Health and Wellness
"Connected health" is a concept that makes it possible to create personalized diagnoses and treatments for each patient and helps facilitate dialog between the different players to reduce overall costs to society.
Stress is a multifaceted phenomenon that varies from person to person and affects 35% of the world's population. It can contribute to illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes. CEA-Leti is designing wearable devices that combine a variety of measurement factors in order to better characterize this phenomenon.
It currently takes up to three weeks to diagnose cancer by analyzing biological tissues. In the near future, multispectral infrared imaging will reduce analysis time to only one hour, at equivalent levels of reliability. This innovation will speed up patient care and increase chances of survival.
How can we determine on a patient-by-patient basis the most appropriate anti-cancer agent to treat a tumor? Ultra-high-precision weighing can measure a small change in the mass of a tumor’s cell and therefore assess its sensitivity to treatment.
The Epicool project is investigating the use of optics to cool epileptogenic areas in the brains of epilepsy patients resistant to other treatments. A prototype implantable device is currently being developed and will be miniaturized before animal testing begins.
Currently, labs require at least eight hours to determine the most efficient antibiotic treatment for a given infection. SUPPLY, a new research project at CEA-Leti, hopes to revolutionize this process thanks to a novel method of analysis based on “optical tweezers”. The project aims to create a prototype that could enable labs to confirm a treatment in only two hours.
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CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.