One Cell Systems (US) has received a $100,000 grant from the US NIH to evaluate the combined use of its gel microdrop technology and fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) to develop a rapid method for screening micro-organisms. The encapsulating technology, licensed to One Cell by the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is said to be well suited to automation as it is compatible with a broad spectrum of existing sample preparation and analytical technologies.
Founded in 1991, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based One Cell Systems has been financed by venture capital, research grants and development agreements with biopharmaceutical companies. Among projects funded by the NIH are assay...
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