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Targeting Taste Sensors Could Prevent Obesity and Related Conditions

Despite more than 25 years of research on antiobesity drugs, few medications have shown long-term success. Now researchers reporting online on December 21 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism say that targeting taste sensors in the gut may be a promising new strategy.

24 Dec 2012

USPTO Awards T2 Biosystems Patent for T2MR Magnetic Biosensor Detector Platform

T2 Biosystems, a company developing direct detection products enabling superior diagnostics, today announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent number 8,334,693 (the ‘693 patent), “NMR device for detection of analytes”.

19 Dec 2012

Plessey Introduce New Handheld ECG Monitor

Plessey will be demonstrating its innovative handheld ECG monitor at CES 2013 on booth 73506 at the Venetian Hotel.

From Plessey Semiconductors Ltd 18 Dec 2012

Fingerprint Cards Receives Second Design Win for Swipe Sensor Technology

Fingerprint Cards (FPC) has received its second Design Win (DW) for its swipe sensor technology from one of Japan’s leading and most innovative mobile phone manufacturers. The initial volume is estimated at minimum one million mobile phones and the first model launch is scheduled for the second quarter of 2013. Due to the competitive situation, the mobile phone manufacturer wants to remain anonymous for the time being.

From Fingerprint Cards AB 17 Dec 2012

New Biosensor Holds Potential for Earlier Detection of Serious Diseases

Vasily Kolchenko, associate professor of biological sciences at New York City College of Technology (City Tech), is a key player on a research team that recently made a breakthrough with enormous potential significance for the treatment of serious diseases.

17 Dec 2012

Simple, Cost-Effective Biosensor for Early Diagnosis of Sleeping Sickness

African sleeping sickness is an infectious disease that is widespread south of the Sahara Desert. Although the around sixty million people residing in tropical Africa run the risk of becoming infected with the disease every day, only around four million of them are monitored for the disease by disease-control authorities. TU Darmstadt bioscientists have recently developed a biosensor that provides simple, cost-effective, means for diagnosing incidences of the disease before it breaks out.

13 Dec 2012

BiOptix to Showcase 404pi Surface Plasmon Resonance Instrument at IBC Annual Conference

BiOptix announced today that it will be showcasing the new BiOptix 404pi at IBC's 23rd Annual Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics Conference in San Diego. The conference, which runs December 2 – 6, 2012, is one of the preeminent technology symposia in the world for the international antibody development and research community.

4 Dec 2012

Portable, Low-Cost Biosensor System to Detect Pathogens in Water Supplies

Arizona State University’s team made a strong showing this fall in one of the most prominent international student engineering and science competitions.

27 Nov 2012

Fingerprint Cards Receives Order to Supply Area Sensors in China

Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has received an order worth SEK 20 M from its distributor in China and Taiwan, Hardware & Software Technologies Co. Ltd (HST). The order encompasses the FPC1011F3 area sensor. Delivery of the entire order is scheduled for 2013, partly in the first quarter and partly in the second quarter.

From Fingerprint Cards AB 27 Nov 2012

Research Breakthroughs Presented by Imec and Holst Centre at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Imec and Holst Centre announced today that they will present nine papers at the 60th International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), February 20-24, 2013 in San Francisco.

From imec Inc. 26 Nov 2012