via Business Wire - BIOIDENT Technologies Inc., the company developing mobile systems analysis and diagnosis, announced today a contract for the Printed Diagnostic Arrays awarded by DARPA. The project aims to demonstrate the capabilities of biosensors with the printed integrated optoelectronics. Together with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), BIOIDENT is developing a portable “lab-on-a-chip” detector based on microfluidic technology.
The new generation of portable diagnostic systems will perform effectively by measuring multiple parameters of tiny volumes of fluid samples quickly and with great accuracy at the point of use. However, the market of mobile applications has been hampered by cost and size of scanning devices. The elimination of cameras and other optical elements drastically reduce the size and cost of biosensor systems, offering the possibility of a handheld sensor.
