Bioengineering

"This technology is used in ophthalmology right now, but you can use this in kidney transplantations, too," said Jeremiah Wierwille, a PhD student in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland.

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Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology targets infectious diseases with its IBN MicroKit, a portable system for quick diagnosis that can be deployed during outbreaks to keep them from becoming pandemics.

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Jackie Ying, executive director of A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, calls it a "lab on a cartridge."

MicroKit Simplifies Infectious-Disease Detection Sam Holmes 2011

"This technology is used in ophthalmology right now, but you can use this in kidney transplantations, too," said Jeremiah Wierwille, a PhD student in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland.

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Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Professor Jackie Ying says the MicroKit could also be used to identify a host of other diseases and infections such as HIV; hand, foot and mouth disease; hepatitis; dengue fever; SARS and cancer.

MicroKit Simplifies Infectious-Disease Detection Sam Holmes 2011

One of them, the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, won the Silver award for its MicroKit.

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Chongqing Brewery acquired a pharmaceutical company, Chongqing Jiachen Bioengineering Co., in 1998, a year after its initial public offering in Shanghai, as part of a plan to develop the drug for hepatitis B.

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The same philosophy can be seen in Silver winner Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology's Microkit—a self-contained and fully automated set of tools that quickly detect diseases in blood and tissue samples.

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At first glance, the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology's MicroKit looks like a souped-up breadmaker.

MicroKit Simplifies Infectious-Disease Detection Sam Holmes 2011