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Mayo Clinic Supports Development of Tear-Based Glucose Meter

An award of $65,000 from Mayo Clinic in Arizona will help Arizona State University bioengineer Jeffrey La Belle continue development of a tear-based glucose meter designed to help people living with diabetes monitor their health.

19 Sep 2014

Flexible Lactate Sensor Imprinted onto Tattoo Paper

In the future, working up a sweat by exercising may not only be good for your health, but it could also power your small electronic devices. Researchers will report today that they have designed a sensor in the form of a temporary tattoo that can both monitor a person's progress during exercise and produce power from their perspiration.

15 Sep 2014

Mass Spectrometer Helps Identify Unique ‘Smell’ of Infectious C-diff Bacteria

Researchers at the University of Leicester have developed an ‘electronic nose’ that can rapidly detect the bug Clostridium difficile (C-diff).

2 Sep 2014

FDA Clears TRUE METRIX Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems

Nipro Diagnostics, Inc., today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its TRUE METRIX™ Self-Monitoring blood glucose system and the TRUE METRIX™ PRO Professional Monitoring blood glucose system.

25 Aug 2014

Prototype Electronic Nose Detects Chemical Warfare Gases

Researchers of the Universitat Politècnica de València have developed a prototype of electronic "nose" for the detection of chemical warfare gases, fundamentally nerve gases (Sarin, Soman and Tabun).

20 Aug 2014

Chemring Detection Systems Receives US Army Contracts to Develop Next Generation Chemical Detectors

Chemring Detection Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Chemring Sensors & Electronic Systems and part of Chemring Group PLC, has secured three cost-plus-incentive-fee contracts for the development of Next Generation Chemical Detectors (NGCD) totaling $3.9M with options for $21.3M from the US Army Contracting Command. Work under the contracts will be performed at the company's facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.

1 Aug 2014

ChemImage Sensor Systems to Take Part in US Army’s NGCD Program

ChemImage Sensor Systems (CISS™) announces that it is one of the organizations selected under the U. S. Army Next Generation Chemical Detector (NGCD) Program to develop a portable system for the detection and location of chemical warfare agents (CWA) on environmental surfaces.

22 Jul 2014

Implant Sciences Ships Previously Unannounced Orders of Explosives Trace Detectors

Implant Sciences Corporation, a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today stated that it has shipped over $550,000 in previously unannounced orders of QS-H150 and QS-B220s to multiple customers in North America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

From L3Harris Technologies, Inc. 18 Jul 2014

Implant Sciences Ships Over $400,000 of Explosives Trace Detectors to Europe, Asia, Africa and Middle East Customers

Implant Sciences Corporation, a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today stated that it has shipped over $400,000 in previously unannounced orders of QS-H150s and QS-B220s to multiple customers in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

From L3Harris Technologies, Inc. 1 Jul 2014

Sandia Transfers Copperhead Synthetic Aperture Radar IED Detection Technology to the US Army

Detecting improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan requires constant, intensive monitoring using rugged equipment. When Sandia researchers first demonstrated a modified miniature synthetic aperture radar (MiniSAR) system to do just that, some experts didn’t believe it.

28 Jun 2014