Immunoassay

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...]

New Atellica™ Solution, Advanced Diagnostics Analyzers from Siemens Healthineers

September 28, 2017

Siemens Healthineers announced today the CE Mark and global commercial availability of its Atellica™ Solution—flexible, scalable, automation-ready immunoassay and chemistry analyzers. The solution is now available across the globe in [more...]

Biosurfit 500 spinit® Instruments

April 17, 2017

Biosurfit SA (“biosurfit”), the in vitro point-of-care (PoC) diagnostics company, is pleased to announce that it has reached a significant commercial milestone, and also provides an update on recent progress. At the end of February [more...]

Biotech Firm Raises $17 Million in Financing Round

January 22, 2017

Adarza BioSystems Inc., a Henrietta-based company, has raised $17 million in its Series C financing round, officials said Friday. 3×5 RiverVest Fund II L.P. is the lead investor for the round. It is co-managed by a joint venture [more...]

Rainbow Seed Fund Invests in AgPlus Diagnostics

October 2, 2016

Rainbow Seed Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on promising technologies developed at the UK’s largest publicly funded research facilities and campuses, today announces its investment into AgPlus Diagnostics, a technology [more...]

Raman Scattering Method can Detect Pluripotent Stem Cells with High Sensitivity

September 12, 2016

Researchers at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) have developed an extremely sensitive technique for detecting pluripotent stem cells, which—despite their potential applications—can become tumors when transplanted. The technique uses gold [more...]

Miroculus Acquires Kapplex to Advance Diagnostics for Complex Diseases

May 9, 2016

Miroculus, a San Francisco-based biotechnology company specializing in microRNA-based diagnostics, today announced an agreement to acquire Toronto-based Kapplex Inc. The Canadian company’s proprietary Digital Microfluidic (DMF) platform [more...]

10 Tips that Connect Fluid Handling with IVD Technology

October 15, 2015

All image credit: Colder Product Company The in vitro diagnostics (IVD) market continues to grow at an almost breakneck pace, along with laboratory demands for increasingly complex and efficient equipment. Whether designing for [more...]

Lab-on-a-Chip Technology Cuts Costs of Lab Tests for HIV, Lyme Disease, Other Diseases

September 14, 2015

The Rutgers lab-on-a chip is three inches long and an inch wide – the size of a glass microscope slide (Image Credit: Courtesy Mehdi Ghodbane) Rutgers engineers have developed a breakthrough device that can significantly reduce the [more...]

FDA Clears Single Blood Drop Test for Earlier Pregnancy Detection

August 25, 2015

NOWDiagnostics‘ ADEXUSDx product line features a lab at your fingertip, using only a single drop of blood to test for a variety of common conditions, illnesses and diseases with results in a matter of minutes. NOWDiagnostics’ [more...]

Biosensia

September 16, 2014

Biosensia is an in vitro diagnostics company that has developed a novel point of care platform, RapiPlex. Biosensia’s proprietary RapiPlex platform integrates three technologies: A multi-channel fluidic chip Robust, well-established [more...]