Festo is taking over the production systems and processes from Carville

Festo Expands its Portfolio with Multilayer Manifolds

26-Jun-2024 - Festo is expanding its portfolio to include multilayer manifolds made of plastic (bonded manifolds) in order to be able to offer manufacturers of medical and laboratory equipment solutions from a single source. To this end, Festo is taking over the production systems and processes for ...

Cyber Valley grants 500K to CELL’n’ROLL via 2023 Innovation Fellowship Program

Cyber Valley Community is advancing diagnostics for the future: Its goal is to create an innovative spin-off from the project after the funding term has ended

16-Apr-2024 - Pioneering cutting-edge diagnostic systems for the detection of complex diseases: Cyber Valley is pleased to announce it has awarded funding of 500K EUR to the CELL’n’ROLL team through the 2023 Cyber Valley Innovation Fellowship program, funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. CELL’n’ROLL aims to ...

An intestinal chip model takes research of fungal infections to a new level

Successful cooperation between science, clinic and start-up

25-Mar-2024 - The Jena-based biotech company Dynamic42 has developed an intestine-on-chip candidiasis model that allows for the quantification of the infection process. By combining microbiological and image-based analyses, the pathogen-host interactions can be analyzed much more precisely than is possible ...

Scientists deliver portable total chemical analysis without pumps and tubes

The portability of the new device enables bedside, quantitative clinical analysis or environmental analysis in the field

27-Feb-2024 - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have engineered a new micro total analysis system that quantifies a target chemical in a microfluidic chip without pumps, tubes, and expensive detectors. The compound reacts with other chemicals to produce a gas, pushing ink in a connected chamber ...

The little things matter: Chemists develop new sensor for microvolume pH detection

New environmentally friendly, durable pH sensor is sensitive enough to accurately measure pH variation in just a few microliters of samples

07-Nov-2023 - Measuring the pH of substances gives us vital clues about the world around us, such as identifying contaminated water or checking the toxicity of medical or cosmetic products. Often, only small amounts of samples are available, but monitoring the variation in pH in these miniscule volumes ...

Paper-based device developed for rapid diagnosis of lung diseases

CSIC researchers have coordinated the design of an instrument that combines paper microfluidics and electrochemical transduction.

03-Aug-2023 - A device that combines microfluidics on paper, electrochemical transduction and immunoassays on magnetic nanoparticles is capable of detecting biomarkers of inflammation in sputum samples, useful for the easy and rapid diagnosis of lung diseases. The research is coordinated by the Institute of ...

French start-up to advance development of automated microfluidic cell and gene therapy manufacturing platform

Astraveus raises €16.5 Million Series Seed round

03-Jul-2023 - Astraveus SAS, the creator of modular, microfluidic cell foundries that transform cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing, exited stealth with the completion of an oversubscribed €16.5 million Series Seed financing led by AdBio partners, co-syndicated with M Ventures, Johnson & Johnson ...

New generation of biotech chips for organ-on-chip technology

“The chip allows us to dive into completely new application areas for organ-on-chip technology”

19-Apr-2023 - Dynamic42 GmbH started the production of a new generation of innovative biotech chips for the organ-on-chip technology. With this chip, developed in-house, the effect of chemical substances can be examined directly on human organ replicas. In addition, complex models relating to immunological ...

Accurate rapid tests made from smart graphene paper

The potential range of applications covers virtually all chemical, biological and medical analyses that can be performed in aqueous solutions

29-Mar-2023 - A team led by ETH Zurich chemical engineers Chih-​Jen Shih and Andrew deMello have developed a rapid test system made of smart graphene paper. It only costs a few cents per test strip, is easy to use but is as accurate as lab measurements. The approach will impact more than just disease ...

INTEGRA Biosciences acquires start-up Miroculus to accelerate genomics

20-Mar-2023 - INTEGRA Biosciences announced that it has acquired Miroculus, a biotechnology specialist focused on developing hands-off automation solutions for next generation sequencing (NGS) protocols. This will allow INTEGRA to expand its product range for library preparation, offering significant time ...