Technology Overview

In diagnostic testing, the ability to simultaneously measure multiple markers of possible disease is increasingly important as more potential indicators are discovered. For example, a cholesterol test alone is inadequate for assessing the risk of heart disease. The FlowMetrix System allows complete heart disease assessment including high-density lipoprotein (so called "good" cholesterol), low-density lipoprotein ("bad" cholesterol), lipoprotein a, as well as other relevant markers, all at an affordable cost.

FlowMetrix combines advances in computing and optics with a new concept in color-coding to create a simple, cost-efficient system for simultaneously measuring molecular reactions. Uniquely colored microscopic beads, called microspheres, carry the molecules necessary to perform diagnostic tests on their surface. Advanced computer and optical technology recognizes each microsphere and provides a precise, quantitative measurement of the diagnostic test simply and in real-time.

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Because FlowMetrix requires fewer steps to assess multiple parameters with exquisite sensitivity and accuracy, it is significantly more cost-effective than current methods of analysis. Substantial savings in labor, time, expensive reagents, and consumables are realized in a wide variety of testing formats.

Only A Few Of The Possible Formats

DNA Hybridization - Immunoassay - Enzyme

 

Some applications already demonstrated with FlowMetrix

HIV and Hepatitis B seroconversion
Multiple cytokine measurement
Multiplexed allergy testing
DNA-based tissue typing
Herpes simplex viral load
IgG, IgA and IgM assay
IgG sub-classification
Drugs of abuse panel
Autoimmunity panel
Epitope mapping
Cardiac markers
hCG and AFP
HIV viral load
ToRCH panel

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