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…
