Diagnostics

1DROP Raises $4.25 Million to Develop Next-Generation Portable Medical Diagnostics

November 30, 2018

1DROP, a life science company developing and commercializing an easy to use, laboratory quality, portable medical diagnostic testing platform, today announced the successful closing of a $4.25 million Series A equity financing [more...]

Diagnostic Technologies Summit

September 13, 2018

Global Engage is pleased to announce the 2018 Diagnostic Technologies Summit comprised of the 4th qPCR and Digital PCR Congress USA and the 3rdMicrofluidics Congress USA. The event will be held on the 13th-14th September 2018 in San [more...]

Low-Cost Plastic Sensors Could Monitor a Range of Health Conditions

June 24, 2018

A low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic could be used to diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions, such as surgical complications or neurodegenerative diseases. (Image Credit: KAUST) An international team of [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...]

Leti and Cellmic LLC Join Forces to Accelerate Market Adoption of Lens-free Diagnostics

May 6, 2018

Figure DxCELL is operated by the built-in phone integrated into the reader and uses the camera on the phone to capture and process test data (Image credit: Cellmic ) Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, and Cellmic LLC, a company [more...]

Chip-based Blood Test for Multiple Myeloma Could Make Bone Biopsies a Relic of the Past

April 28, 2018

A new University of Kansas research effort featured in the current edition of Integrative Biology has resulted in a low-cost, reliable blood test that uses a small plastic chip about the size of a credit card that can deliver the same [more...]

Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Diagnostics Global Market Top Key Players

December 13, 2017

Cancer is diagnosed by blood count, bone marrow biopsy, and molecular identification of mutated cells. CTC diagnostics helps in the identification of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) shed by tumor cells. CTCs are cancerous cells which detach [more...]

New Microfluidic Chip Boosts the Sensitivity of Immunoassays

October 29, 2017

Proteins are one of the most important classes of biomarkers – biological molecules indicative of a disease or health of an individual. The detection of proteins is critical in a variety of tests; from the diagnosis of malaria, through [more...]

Engineers Receive $1 Million for Implantable System to Detect Lung Cancer

September 17, 2017

Future medical diagnostic tools may get under your skin — literally. An interdisciplinary team of UB engineers, working with Intel Corp. and Garwood Medical Devices, has received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop [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 for Advanced Functional Polymeric Materials

September 17, 2017

Book Description Amazon Link | Wiley Link Author: Liang-Yin Chu, Wei Wang ISBN: 978-3-527-34182-5 336 pages June 2017 Summary A comprehensive and systematic treatment of our current understanding of the microfluidic technique and its [more...]

Diagnostic Devices with Microfluidics

September 17, 2017

Book Description Amazon Link | CRC Press Link Author: Francesco Piraino, Šeila Selimovic June 14, 2017 by CRC Press Reference – 257 Pages ISBN 9781498772938 – CAT# K29532 Summary This book provides a current view of the [more...]

2nd Microfluidics Congress: USA-2017

July 24, 2017

Global Engage is pleased to announce the Microfluidics Congress: USA, which will be held on July 24-26th, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue. There will also be pre-meeting training courses. For more [more...]

NightstaRx Raises $45M to Fund Phase III Study with Retinal Disease Gene Therapy

July 4, 2017

U.K. firm NightstaRx raised $45 million in a Series C financing round to support continued clinical development of its pipeline of retinal gene therapies, including a pending Phase III study with lead candidate NSR-REP1 for treating [more...]

Flow Cytometry Pushes the Envelope of Applications Possibilities

June 25, 2017

This technical review article was adopted from Laser Focus World and written by Giacomo Vacca is president and founder of Kinetic River, Mountain View, CA. The author covered application history of flow cytometry, hardware evolution, [more...]

The Making of a Medical Microchip

June 18, 2017

This chip, developed by Fluidigm, can be used in a microfluidics system to analyse genomic information from samples as small as a single cell (Image credit: Fluidigm) The bioengineers in Dino Di Carlo’s lab at the University of [more...]

Paper Diagnostics Market Analysis And Segment Forecasts To 2022

June 14, 2017

The global paper diagnostics market was valued at USD 4,700 million in 2014 and is anticipated to grow at CAGR of 7.5% over the forecast period. Rising prevalence of infectious diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis is responsible for [more...]

Sorting out HIV

June 14, 2017

Image Credit: EMBL/Merten Group Around 1% of patients with HIV – known as elite controllers – are able to survive without antiviral treatment, because their immune systems produce certain kinds of HIV-specific antibodies: proteins that [more...]

Diagnostic Device Has Been Printed

May 31, 2017

Researchers from the product design and development department at Cambridge Consultants, a UK-based company that develops medical products, created the technology to make it happen. Using inkjet printing technology, the device is developed [more...]

Rainbow Seed Fund & University of Birmingham Back Promising Technology Spinout Linear Diagnostics

May 31, 2017

Rainbow Seed Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on building technology companies from the UK’s research base, announced today an investment into University of Birmingham spinout Linear Diagnostics. The investment [more...]