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StartUp Health community member Louis Ross, CEO & Founder of MEI Micro, has spent his career bringing navigation-grade sensor accuracy, once reserved for aerospace and defense, into devices small enough to wear. His argument: no amount of software can fully make up for a low-accuracy sensor, and that gap matters most when the goal is catching disease before symptoms appear.
In this Health Moonshot Update, Ross unpacks how MEI Micro's sensor technology could support earlier detection across conditions from ACL injuries to Alzheimer's.
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