Personalised nutrition smart patch developed by a Tamil

Prof Sharath Sriram, one of the project leads of the team that has developed a wearable smart patch that will deliver precision data to help people personalise their diets and reduce their risk of developing lifestyle-related chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, talks to Kulasegaram Sanchayan.

Left: Dr Sumeet Walia working with the sensor technology c Mark Dadswell; Right: Dr Sharath Sriram. Source: Supplied

The world-first personalised nutrition wearable being developed by Melbourne-based start-up Nutromics painlessly measures key dietary biomarkers and sends the information to an app, enabling users to precisely track how their bodies respond to different foods.  The same technology can be used to test if someone has the biomarkers for being COVID-19 positive.