Technical University of Dresden has spun out a new company which identifies diseases through a high-speed camera.
Biotechnology company Zellmechanik Dresden has been spun out of Technical University of Dresden to commercialise technology that enables a high-speed camera to identify diseases, according to Biotechnologie.de.
The camera takes thousands of images per second of a drop of blood, tracking mechanical properties of blood cells in real-time and identifying diseases – a cancer cell, for example, can be detected because it is more easily deformed than a healthy cell.
The approach is faster than the traditional use of antibody detection and fluorescence imaging, delivering results in 15 minutes as opposed to several hours.
The spinout is based on researched conducted by Jochen Guck at the university’s Biotechnology Centre (Biotec). The research was first disclosed in scientific magazine Nature Methods in February 2015.
