Nanomedical Diagnostics, a biotech company located in San Diego, California, has developed a breakthrough electronic assay, an investigative procedure that is usually used in medicine, pharmacology and molecular biology to assess or measure the presence of a particular entity.
Typically undertaken in a laboratory, this process relies heavily on automated procedures to verify and then return results to the end user. Laboratories use advanced informatics systems that link multiple computer terminals with different end users, central servers, physical autoanalyser instruments, and other devices – making the process both costly and complex.
Nanomedical Diagnostics has come up with a Field Effect Biosensing (FEB) technology that provides real-time, label-free kinetic binding and affinity data.
“It’s a novel sensing technique that will be available to more pharmaceutical companies seeking to characterise biomolecules quickly and easily. We think it could radically transform the field of drug discovery,” suggests Mitch Lerner, vice president of production at Nanomedical Diagnostics.
“This is the only mass-produced graphene biosensor currently available on the market,” explains Lerner. “The benefits of graphene technology have traditionally been restricted to specialised, well-funded university laboratories looking to build one-off platforms. Our new sensor device, the AGILE-100, makes this new sensing technique available to any pharmaceutical company looking to characterise biomolecules.”
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