A Young Biotech Company Garners Australian Design Award for Innovative Diagnostics

A Danish and Taiwanese company has won Australia’s Good Design Award for a portable diagnostic device—small enough to fit in a camera case—that allows diagnosis of infectious diseases on the spot from a single drop of blood. “The Good Design Award ranked BluBox as the best solution for the rapid and accurate assessment of communicable diseases in heavily populated as well as resource-constrained, expertise-lacking areas,” explained Filippo Bosco, CEO and one of the three founders of BluSense Diagnostics (Copenhagen). The secret inside the BluBox is a patented technology known as immuno-magnetic assay (IMA), which takes place within a single-use cartridge, the ViroTrack. There, the plasma is separated from the red blood cells and mixed with reagents and magnetic nanoparticles. A strong magnetic field and blue laser light are applied to achieve the result, all within 9 to 15 minutes.  Currently, BluSense offers a portfolio of single-use cartridges for zika and dengue, which can measure one or two markers (antibodies or antigens) from a single drop of blood per cartridge. “We aim to increase the number of markers that can be tested in one cartridge to up to six in the future,” Bosco told MD+DI. The BluBox currently on the market processes one cartridge at the time. “Our device meets the needs of general practitioners and smal...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: IVD Source Type: news