The painful finger-pricks diabetics are forced to endure when checking their blood sugar levels could become a thing of the past thanks to the work of engineering researchers at Texas A&M.

Gerard Coté, Charles H. & Bettye Barclay Professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Michael Pishko, Stewart & Stevenson Professor II in biomedical engineering are working on a new less invasive way to monitor blood sugar levels that could alleviate the bothersome finger-pricks for patients.

The team is developing a process that would allow individuals to check their blood sugars with the mere glance at a wristwatch-like meter.