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Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma (spectrum.ieee.org)
v7n 3 hours ago [-]
Neat! I've occasionally looked into getting into DIY microfluidics, and one of the lowish-tech ideas I've seen is etching/engraving CD cases or other polystyrene sheets and baking them: this makes them shrink quite predictably, allowing for some really tiny channels. In arts & crafts they call them "Shrinky Dinks". PDMS is another interesting material, and could perhaps be somehow combined with 3D printing channels with alcohol-soluble polymers to print + dissolve the channels...
jmclnx 36 minutes ago [-]
This is great! I heard of a rare form of Glaucoma that does not have to do with high eye pressure but blood flow to the optic nerve, they think it is a genetic type issue.

I know some who has it and so far so good using the eye-drops. But they were told to try avoid low blood pressure in order to increase blood flow to the nerve. I wonder if these lenses could help too, but they would need to have a lower eye pressure trigger then for "normal" Glaucoma.

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