A healthier future at our fingertips thanks to a private-government collaboration

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - Oct. 17, 2024 - PRLog -- By the time you finish reading this sentence, another American will be diagnosed with diabetes. One in ten have it. Even more of us are pre-diabetic, but because the condition is symptomless, it is easy to miss until too late. Testing at a doctor's office or clinic is the way find out, but it is slow, painful and expensive. Thanks to a collaboration between start-up ViBo Health and Los Alamos National Laboratory, we may soon have a better way: they are developing the DigiScan, which is an instant, pain-free way to detect pre-diabetes and diabetes risks. The plan is to make DigiScan available for free at your pharmacist, gym community center or place of work.

Imagine all the power of a sophisticated blood test, without the needles, without the costs, and being able to repeat the tests continuously to look for changes over time. ViBo Health, a start-up based in the USA and Portugal, is making a scanner that tracks your health and wellness, quickly painlessly and for free. By tracking "metabolites," a health dashboard shows various wellness indicators over time. The company is now going to benefit from the deep knowledge and capabilities of Los Alamos National Lab (LANL). The same team at LANL previously commercialized a neurotoxin screening tool that won the prestigious Top 100 R&D Award.

The start-up company is taking advantage of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS), the technology that allows MRI machines to create images of our bodies, to measure our biochemistry without requiring any blood to be drawn. Dr. Gil Travish (Founder and CEO of ViBo Health) spoke about the importance of collaboration and the benefits of working with LANL: "This has the makings of a great partnership. As a small company we can be innovative, agile and responsive. As a massive national lab with tremendous scientific depth and technical know-how, LANL can marshal resources and capabilities crucial to turning ideas into reality. We are honored to be working with the lab and the fantastic team there. We are also keenly aware that New Mexico, the home state of LANL, has a real challenge with diabetes. We want to help fight this debilitating disease by finding people before they get sick and open up access to this kind of healthcare."

About ViBo Health: The company is on a mission is to transform how we track our health, increase awareness of our health states, and provide useful information so everyone can lead healthier and more fulfilling lives.

About LANL: Our mission is to solve national security challenges through simultaneous excellence.

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ViBo Health see https://www.vibo.health
LANL see https://discover.lanl.gov/news/media-contacts/