Point-of-care

3rd Microfluidics Congress Europe

December 4, 2017

Utilizing Microfluidics Technologies as as tool for progressing medical research and patient care! Global Engage is pleased to announce the 2017 Microfluidics Congress, as part of our 4Bio event. Microfluidics continues to be an exciting [more...]

TearLab Announces European Regulatory Clearance for Next-Generation TearLab Discovery™ System

July 23, 2017

TearLab Osmolarity System with its Osmolarity Test Card (image credit: TearLab) TearLab Corporation (NASDAQ:TEAR) (TSX:TLB) (the “Company”) today announced that the commercial version of its next-generation in-vitro diagnostics [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...]

IBM Scientists Use Lab-on-a-Chip Nanochannel Technology Designed to “Stretch” DNA to Help Detect Disease

May 29, 2017

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have developed a “lab-on-a-chip” technology that can stretch double-stranded DNA molecules with the potential to efficiently reveal biomarkers that may indicate disease. This technology complements the IBM [more...]

Yole Report -Status of the Microfluidics Industry 2017

May 13, 2017

Microfluidic technologies have finally found sweet spots and there are already credible options for the next upsurge. This new Yole Development report provides a comlete analysis of microfluidic device/product applications, market and [more...]

UCLA Researchers Make DNA Detection Portable, Affordable Using Cell Phones

March 27, 2017

The combined dye/cellphone reader system achieved comparable results to equipment costing tens of thousands of dollars more (Image Credit: Dino Di Carlo/UCLA) Researchers at UCLA have developed an improved method to detect the presence [more...]

Exosome Diagnostics Announces the First Instrument for Point of Care Liquid Biopsy

December 19, 2016

CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwired – December 08, 2016) – Exosome Diagnostics, Inc. announced today that it has developed the first instrument for exosomal protein (exoProtein) capture and analysis directly from any biofluid. The [more...]

Lab-on-a-Chip Asia – Microfluidics, POCD & Organ-on-a-Chip

December 5, 2016

Lab-on-a-Chip Asia – Microfluidics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics & Organ-on-a-Chip, presented by Select Biosciences South East Asia and Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, will take place in Singapore, on 5-6 December. [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...]

Cepheid Targets Development of a Point of Care HIV Viral Load Test From a Few Drops of Blood

September 11, 2016

Millions of patients, including newborns, in primary health care settings could gain access to a potentially life-changing test for HIV viral load monitoring thanks to a new development effort from Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD), which is being [more...]

Portable Microscope Could Speed Sepsis Detection

September 5, 2016

A portable microscope, developed as part of a scalable, point-of-care, label-free microarray platform, may offer more rapid detection of sepsis and other infections caused by bacteria, ultimately saving millions of lives each year. The [more...]

Penn Engineers Develop $2 Portable Zika Test

July 14, 2016

Microfluidic device for zika test (Image credit: University of Pennsylvania) University of Pennsylvania engineers have developed a rapid, low-cost genetic test for the Zika virus. The $2 testing device, about the size of a soda can, does [more...]

Philips Launches Handheld Blood Test for Rapid Point-of-Care Heart Attack Diagnosis

May 28, 2016

Minicare I-20 troponin blood test for rapid diagnosis of heart attack near the patient (Image Credit: Philips) Royal Philips today (25 May) announced the launch of a new handheld blood test, the Minicare I-20 system, for rapid diagnosis [more...]

Paper Diagnostic Tests Could Save Thousands of Lives

March 28, 2016

DFA Livertest: Postage stamp-sized paper tests developed by the non-profit Diagnostics for All can screen for drug toxicity by measuring enzymes produced by liver cells (Courtesy of Diagnostics for All, Inc.) When someone with a high fever [more...]

On-the-spot Diagnosis of Certain Cancers With Sensitive Bionsensor

March 21, 2016

The two arms of the interferometer used to detect microRNAs in urine samples. The top one is the reference arm while the bottom one is the sensing arm ( Image Credit: A Star) MicroRNAs are a newly discovered class of short (about 19 to [more...]

A Portable Device For Rapid And Highly Sensitive Diagnostics

March 3, 2016

A portable and low-cost diagnostic device has been developed at EPFL. This microfluidic tool, which has been tested with Ebola, requires no bulky equipment. It is thus ideally suited for use in remote regions. When remote regions with [more...]

Transforming Molecular Diagnostic Point of Care with Cell Phones

March 1, 2016

Wells turn blue if a particular nucleic acid molecule is present. A cell-phone image of the wells can then undergo ratiometric spectral processing to provide a quantification of target molecules. [Ismagilov Lab] Scientists at Caltech [more...]

Abbott’s $5.8 Billion Deal for Alere Is Device Sector’s Latest

February 2, 2016

Abbott Laboratories agreed to buy Alere Inc. for $56 a share, or about $5.8 billion, to become the leader in the market for rapid medical tests and adding another deal to a long list in the fast-consolidating medical devices and technology [more...]

Philips’ Minicare I-20 System Can Detect and Evaluate Concussions With Blood Test

January 7, 2016

The new handheld test will be based on Philips’ Minicare I-20 system Royal Philips and Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a multi-year joint development agreement to develop and commercialize a new [more...]

NOWDiagnostics Is Using Quick Fingertip-prick Blood Testing To Identify Disease

January 7, 2016

Microfluidic cartridge (Image Credit: NOWDiagnostics) A focus on relatively painless, quick diagnostic testing didn’t just bring Theranos to the forefront (despite its recent hurdles). Companies like NOWDiagnostics, established in the [more...]