altona Diagnostics announces leadership transition

New General Managers appointed

05-Jul-2024 - altona Diagnostics GmbH announces a leadership transition. Dr. Ulrich Spengler and Dr. Markus Hess, the current General Managers, are transferring the management responsibilities to Dr. Sönke Friedrichsen and Hans Kuhn. New leadership for a growing company Reflecting the development and expansion ...

Portable AI-based test kit to identify bacterial infections

Dutch scientist selected as a finalist for the Young Inventors Prize 2024: Her startup focuses on the most common types of infection

11-Jun-2024 - According to a study published in The Lancet, one in eight global deaths in 2019 was caused by common bacterial infections, which are the second leading cause of death worldwide. Due to slow or ineffective diagnostics many treatments are carried out with limited information on the condition, ...

When is genome sequencing advisable?

Human geneticists conduct clinical reference study for the diagnosis of genetic diseases

10-Jun-2024 - Scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Leipzig Medical Center (UKL) have shown in two independent patient cohorts when a genome sequencing is beneficial in the diagnosis of genetic diseases. The jointly published study provides ...

En Carta Diagnostics secures €1.5M to advance diagnostic kit platform for early Lyme disease detection

Groundbreaking patented molecular diagnostic kit poised to provide game-changing autonomous Lyme detection in minutes

27-May-2024 - En Carta Diagnostics, a deeptech start-up developing rapid Point-of-Care (POC) molecular diagnostics kits, announces €1.5M ($1.63M) in pre-seed funding. This investment will enable En Carta to make a substantial leap forward in achieving preclinical data on a prototype diagnostic kit for its ...

Blood diagnostics modelled on leeches

For all those who are afraid of needles: New device for taking blood samples uses microneedles and a suction cup instead of a large needle

07-May-2024 - Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a safe and inexpensive device for reliable blood measurements. It works using a suction cup and could also be employed to diagnose the tropical disease malaria – even by non-​medical personnel. Many people are afraid of needles, and having a doctor take a ...

New nanosensors make diagnostic procedures more sensitive

The nanosensors can be used to track reactions with invisible light, saving materials and time

16-Feb-2024 - The Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS and Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have developed a process that enables a new form of signal amplification for diagnostic tests. Through the advanced use of luminescent single walled carbon nanotubes in bioanalytics, test ...

Glow sticks – Not just for parties anymore

University of Houston researcher using popular party favor to detect biothreats for US Navy

12-Jan-2024 - Remember that party where you were swinging glow sticks above your head or wearing them as necklaces? Fun times, right? Science times, too. Turns out those fun party favors are now being used by a University of Houston researcher to identify emerging biothreats for the United States Navy. It’s ...

Verici DX reaches a global licensing and commercialisation agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific

Agreement grants rights to further develop an assay for pre-transplant prognostic testing

20-Nov-2023 - Verici Dx plc, a developer of advanced clinical diagnostics for organ transplant, announced that it has signed an exclusive global licensing agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to further develop an assay for pre-transplant prognostic testing for risk of early kidney rejection. The exclusive ...

Microplate Dx secures £2.5 million to develop rapid diagnostic technology for better antibiotic use

In minutes rather than days to prescribe the optimal antibiotic

13-Sep-2023 - Glasgow diagnostics spinout Microplate Dx has closed a £2.5M seed funding round to develop its point-of-care diagnostic platform which can confirm the presence of bacteria and guide a patient’s doctor to effective treatment by rapidly identifying effective antibiotics to use and which ones to ...

Fluidity Predicts Aggressiveness of Cancerous Tumours

11-Aug-2023 - Doctors have been palpating suspicious hardened areas under their patients’ skin throughout recorded history. Scientists at Charité university clinic in Berlin and Leipzig University, in cooperation with clinical diagnostic radiologists and biophysicists, have now proven that this ancient ...