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Portable diagnostic platform

Diagnostics, closer to where life happens.

BioMEMS Diagnostics is developing a single-use cartridge, a handheld analyzer and a connected app, designed to bring laboratory-type testing to the point of need.

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The BioMEMS system: a white handheld analyzer with the cartridge standing in its top opening, beside a phone showing an illustrative results screen.

The challenge

Complex tests still mean waiting for a lab.

When a question needs more than a yes-or-no answer, the sample usually travels: collected in one place, analysed in a central laboratory, reported back later.

Outside the lab, today's options tend to be either large, costly analyzers that started life as laboratory equipment, or simple strips that give only basic answers.

A gloved hand placing a labelled blood sample tube into a rack in a laboratory.
Today, detailed testing usually means a central laboratory.

Where fast, detailed answers matter

  • Emergency rooms
  • Accident scenes
  • Remote and field clinics
  • Military medicine
  • Chronic care at home

Conventional testingThe sample travels.

  1. Sample collected
  2. Shipped to a central lab
  3. Queued and analysed
  4. Result reported back

With BioMEMSThe test travels.

  1. Sample collected
  2. Cartridge into the analyzer
  3. Result on a paired phone

Concept: the test travels to the sample, not the other way round.

The question

The platform

Three parts, designed as one system.

The cartridge, the analyzer and the app are developed together, from the moment a sample is added to the moment a result is shared.

  1. The BioMEMS cartridge: a small white capsule-shaped tube printed with the BioMEMS wordmark.

    Single-use test cartridge

    Cartridge

    Takes one small sample and is designed to run up to ten different tests from it. At its centre is BioMEMS' patent-pending biosensor chip.

    Single-use · Custom test panels

  2. The BioMEMS analyzer: a compact white puck with a single round opening on top.

    Handheld analyzer

    Analyzer

    The cartridge goes upright into the top of the compact reader, which runs its tests. Designed to be used without laboratory training.

    Portable · No lab skills required

  3. A phone showing the BioMEMS app with an illustrative healthy-aging results screen.

    Connected app

    App

    Results appear on a paired smart device and can be shared with a doctor or sent to a medical record.

    Paired smart device · Shareable reports

Follow a test through the system

Applications

One platform.
Many use cases.

BioMEMS is developing one diagnostic platform for many use cases, five of them shown here. The cartridge, the analyzer and the app stay the same in each; the test chemistry inside is adapted to the use.

Application areas reflect the company's current development focus. Specific tests remain subject to development, validation and, where required, regulatory review.

  1. Three athletes resting on a blue running track after a training session.

    Fitness

    Effort is easy to measure. Effect is not.

    BioMEMS' first product in development is a healthy-aging test designed for home or gym use: one sample, ten health insights, results on a phone. For people who train seriously, that could bring biology into the conversation alongside pace and load.

    First product in development

  2. An older woman outdoors in a blue jacket, wind in her hair, looking toward the camera.

    Healthy aging

    Aging well starts with knowing more.

    The healthy-aging panel in development covers areas such as systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, heart and circulation, and cellular aging, built by converting established laboratory tests to the BioMEMS platform.

    In development

    See the ten health insights

  3. A health worker in a protective gown, mask and gloves preparing a sample tube at a testing station.

    Infection

    When infection is the question, time matters.

    Infectious disease is among the areas the platform is being explored for, including sexually transmitted and hospital-acquired infections, where answers at the point of care could support earlier decisions.

    Area under exploration

  4. A veterinarian examining a black and tan dachshund on an examination table.

    Animal health

    For patients who can't describe their symptoms.

    A leading animal-health company has engaged BioMEMS to develop a canine cognitive-health test, delivered on the same platform: the same cartridge, the same analyzer, the same app.

    Commercial development contract, 2025

  5. An emergency response crew loading equipment into the back of an ambulance in a road tunnel.

    Emergency & defense

    Answers in the field, not only in the lab.

    Emergency rooms, ambulances, accident scenes, remote clinics and military medicine all need detailed answers fast. A handheld analyzer and a single-use cartridge are designed to work where a laboratory is not.

    Intended application area

Many use cases

The same BioMEMS cartridge used for every application, lying level with its wordmark facing the viewer.

Same cartridge. Different chemistry.

Every application uses the same cartridge, the same analyzer and the same app. What changes is invisible from the outside: the test chemistry applied to the twelve wells of the sensor disc inside.

Think of a blank disc. The sensor is the same every time, so it can be mass-produced; each test is written onto it afterwards, like music onto the same CD.

See inside the cartridge

Technology

Engineered as a platform, not a single test.

The BioMEMS biosensor chip: a gold sensor disc on a green board, with twelve wells in its centre.
Biosensor chip, twelve wells (visualization)
10tests
Up to ten different tests from a single sample, by design.
12wells
On the sensor disc, each prepared with the chemistry for its test.
1chip
One standard biosensor chip for every test, so it can be made at scale.
  • A patent-pending biosensor chip at the centre of every cartridge.
  • Built for immunoassays, the protein tests that make up the widest part of diagnostics.
  • Fully digital from sample to report, with results that can be sent to the cloud or a medical record.

Figures describe the design of a platform in development.

Our approach

Healthy aging

A healthy-aging test for home or gym.

BioMEMS' first product in development: one sample, ten health insights, results on a paired phone.

A woman holds up the small white BioMEMS cartridge toward the camera.

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