I am pleased to report that i-STAT, the Abbott Laboratories’ portable brain injury detector that I first posted about in 2017 as in development, and again cited in 2023, has received the attention it deserves from a major publication.

On October 9. 2025, Time acknowledged i-STAT as one of the best new inventions:

“During head traumas like concussions, the brain’s cells release two proteins, GFAP and UCH-L1. Abbott’s i-STAT Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) test only takes about 15 minutes to look for signs of brain injury by checking for these biomarkers, offering a much quicker alternative to CT scans—the go-to diagnostic since the 1970s. The medical community long thought a TBI blood test was impossible, largely because of the blood-brain barrier. “It was a tall order, and there was no road map,” Dr. Beth McQuiston, Abbott’s medical director of diagnostics, says. The test was FDA cleared in 2024, and MotoAmerica has already deployed Abbott’s test during motorcycle races.”

See article: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318430/abbott-i-stat-tbi/