Alcon and Verily have suspended work on a glucose-sensing smart contact lens for patients with diabetes, according to a post on Verily’s website.
The companies partnered in 2014 to manufacture the lens in order to help those living with diabetes better manage the disease. The partnership has grown to include a smart accommodating contact lens for presbyopia and a smart IOL to improve sight after cataract surgery. The original glucose-measuring product, however, has not been as successful.
“Our clinical work on the glucose-sensing lens demonstrated that there was insufficient
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