Yip gota agree whole heartedly very good linkage a lot of small sometimes not obvious steps all build upon one another until hindsight .......... reveals it self I now firmly believe this is what we are witnessing
I went fishing on Scienion's web site and found this not sure if its been posted before
Taschentuchlabor: "The Lab in a Hankie" Objective:
The project aims at the development of new biosensors for the direct detection of pathogens without complicated purification steps. For this purpose, a new class of sensor-actor-molecules will be generated that integrate pathogen recognition and signalling structures for direct detection of analytes in a complex environment. Through the complete integration of all necessary processing steps on molecular level, a new generation in bioanalytics will be achieved. Today, lab on chip-devices are considered as the next generation in diagnostics. These systems are intended to reduce complex chemical analyses performed in laboratories to the size of a credit card which could easily be placed in a trouser pocket. But already research for the next generation of clinical diagnostics is being carried out: A molecular integrated analysis that can be spun into threads and used for the production of shirts or handkerchiefs - offering thus a "lab in a hankie". To achieve this, fourteen partners form science and industry focus on the development of new biosensors that can be used for direct detection of pathogens without complicated preparation steps. By these means, biochemical binding reactions should become visible and feasible for diagnostics. Due to the long tradition in the development of biosensors, the region Berlin-Brandenburg provides a solid basis for the design of autonomous biosensors. Through the association of fourteen partners from different fields of science and industry, profound knowledge from complex areas like host-pathogen interaction, signal generation with biomolecules and polymer chemistry are combined. The potential of a third generation of biosensors for early pathogen detection has also been recognised by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and is supported by the innovation initiative for the new German Länder. http://www.taschentuchlabor.de Duration: 1/10/2009 - 30/09/2014 Sponsored by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research Involved Partners:
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