Biosensor

A New Sensor to Identify Proteins Responsible for Neuro-degenerative Diseases

July 13, 2018

In a new study, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, have designed a biosensor using gold nano-particles that can identify the presence of a protein called alpha-synuclein. The newly developed biosensor uses optical [more...]

Medical Sensors Design Conference

June 24, 2018

Rapid advances in medical technology, and the increasing need to store and rapidly access data are making sensors an important part of the medical landscape. At the Medical Sensors Design Conference June 25 through 26 at the McEnery [more...]

Nanomedical Diagnostics Releases Report on Affinity Ranking for Hit Validation

May 15, 2018

Agile R100 Nanomedical Diagnostics, leading manufacturer of graphene biosensors that accelerate pharmaceutical and biotherapeutics development, released a report for biochemists and chemists entitled, “Affinity Ranking of Small [more...]

Microsensor Could Help Individualize Dialysis Treatment

April 15, 2018

Microscope picture of the microfluidic device developed by researcher Manoj Sharma. The horizontal stripe is the microchannel, which measures 0.2 mm across. The six other stripes are optic fibers that capture the fluorescent light and lead [more...]

Carterra Inc. Raises $10M from Telegraph Hill Partners to Develop and Launch Next-Generation Antibody Characterization Platform

January 22, 2018

Carterra LSA, fully integrated high throughput mAb characterization platform (Image credit: Carterra Inc.) Carterra Inc., an innovative label-free biosensor company, has announced the closing of a $10M financing from Telegraph Hill [more...]

Vibrating Sensors Could Identify Blood Biomarkers

December 2, 2017

Purdue University researchers have found a method of identifying biological markers in small amounts of blood that they believe could be used to detect a myriad of diseases, infections and different medical conditions at early stages. [more...]

Nanoscale Chip System Measures Light from a Single Bacterial Cell to Enable Portable Chemical Detection

September 17, 2017

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created a nanophotonic chip system using lasers and bacteria to observe fluorescence emitted from a single bacterial cell. To fix the bacteria in place and to route light toward [more...]

Microfluidics and Nanotechnology: Biosensing to the Single Molecule Limit

September 17, 2017

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: Liang-Yin Chu, Wei Wang ISBN: 978-3-527-34182-5 336 pages June 2017 Summary An increasing number of technologies are being used to detect minute quantities of biomolecules and [more...]

Roche Joins Senseonics, TypeZero for Artificial Pancreas Trials

August 16, 2017

Senseonics and TypeZero’s R&D partnership around the artificial pancreas is leveling up. The two organizations announced today that they would team up with pharmaceutical and medical device company Roche to launch three European [more...]

Sweat-Inducing Sensor Could Make Blood Samples Obsolete

August 16, 2017

Scientists have recently used medical sensors to collect and sample sweat. Collecting this fluid allows them to analyze a patient’s body far more thoroughly than most other methods ever could. Analyzing sweat can often yield results [more...]

UBC Engineers Invent 3D-printed Device to Monitor Water Quality

August 1, 2017

UBC researchers say measuring water quality continuously is vital in ensuring people’s drinking water is safe (Image credit: WANYEE LI/METRO) Engineers at the University of British Okanagan have designed a 3D-printed device that [more...]

‘Lab on a Chip’ Could Monitor Exposure to Dangerous Molecules

August 1, 2017

An artists’ rendition of microparticles flowing through a channel and passing through electric fields, where they are detected electronically and barcode-scanned (Photo: Ella Marushchenko and Alexander Tokarev/Ella Maru Studios) [more...]

Lab on a Chip Could Monitor Health, Germs and Pollutants

June 14, 2017

An artists’ rendition of microparticles flowing through a channel and passing through electric fields, where they are detected electronically and barcode-scanned. (Credit: Ella Marushchenko and Alexander Tokarev/Ella Maru Studios) [more...]

A Portable Battery Powered Microfluidic Impedance Cytometer with Smartphone Readout

May 13, 2017

Abstract We present a portable system for personalized blood cell counting consisting of a microfluidic impedance cytometer and portable analog readout electronics, feeding into an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and being transmitted [more...]

Graphene Nanosensor Enables Ultra-sensitive Mass Detection

May 13, 2017

Using a graphene nanoribbon suspended over a trench, a team of researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China has discovered a link between the nanomechanical motion and conductance through a single-electron transistor [more...]

Biosensors, Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies

May 10, 2017

This will be a multi-track event, with Biosensors, Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies, Point- of-Care Diagnostics and Organ-on-a-Chip all running in unison at the Holiday Inn Munich, City Centre from 10 -11 May 2017 in Germany. [more...]

Faster Biosensor for Healthcare Developed

April 27, 2017

DGIST research team led by Professor CheolGi Kim has developed a biosensor platform which has 20 times faster detection capability than the existing biosensors using magnetic patterns resembling a spider web. The sensing capability of a [more...]

Machine Learning Enhances Smartphone Attachment for Disease Detection

April 9, 2017

A prototype of the computational sensor designed by machine learning. (Image credit: Aydogan Ozcan/UCLA) A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has applied machine learning to a mobile device [more...]

nMIS Dual Mode Sensors for Detection of Biomolecules

April 4, 2017

Microfluidics is the science and technology that deals with the flow of liquids from microliters (mL) to picoliters (pL) inside a micrometer sized channels1. The ability of microfluidics to miniaturize and mimic various laboratory [more...]

3-D Antibody Arrays Offer Better Sensing

January 11, 2017

MIT chemical engineers discovered that they could force antibodies and other proteins to form layers by attaching each protein to a polymer tail. The proteins and polymers repel each other, so the molecules arrange themselves in a [more...]