Bioengineers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Italian researchers have designed inexpensive medical diagnostic tests, by copying how nature uses mechanisms to sense the environment that take only a few minutes to conduct. The development could improve point-of-care devices for quick diagnoses of illnesses, such as sexually transmitted diseases, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and others. The [...]
Sony Moves Into Medical Testing Field
June 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sony, the consumer electronics manufacturer, is expanding into creating patient-friendly medical devices, particularly in medical laboratory and diagnostic test kits. The shift indicates that the market for diagnostic testing remains strong. The company is seeking to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Israeli medical technologies, according to a story in the Israeli business daily, [...]
Boosting Polymer Microfluidic Chip Production
April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We may see medical and environmental diagnostics on plastic chips the size of flash cards in the near future. In a story for MIT News, Jennifer Chu reports on how microfluidic technology, which is also known as lab-on-a-chip technology, could be used to shrink analytical power into a handheld device so that analyses can be [...]
