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Recent Progress in Wearable Microneedle Sensor Devices for Continuous Screening of Interstitial Fluid: A Journey Toward Lab Under the Skin

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Lakshmi R. Panicker, Keerthanaa M. R., and K. Yugender Goud would like to thank the Department of Science and Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB/RJF/2021/000113, Ramanujan Award), New Delhi, India, and the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad for financial support and research facilities.

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Panicker, L.R., Keerthanaa, M., Goud, K.Y. (2024). Recent Progress in Wearable Microneedle Sensor Devices for Continuous Screening of Interstitial Fluid: A Journey Toward Lab Under the Skin. In: Mitsubayashi, K. (eds) Wearable Biosensing in Medicine and Healthcare. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8122-9_7

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