Medridge co. “Practical application of single cell isolation system and drug discovery support”
Cancer organoids can be grown with high efficiency from patient-derived tumor tissues, potentially enabling patient-specific drug testing and the development of individualized treatment regimens. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs), one of the biomarkers for liquid biopsies, which can be obtained from peripheral blood in a minimally invasive and repeated manner. However, a special method that can detect and collect CTCs is required as there are only a few CTCs among millions of other blood cells. In this lecture, we will introduce a cell isolation system that extracts live CTCs at the single cell level from patient blood and its application to drug discovery support.
BioCMOS Co. Ltd. “Environmental and medical application of semiconductor LSI”
R&D has been developed to utilize semiconductor LSIs for environmental and medical applications. BioCMOS Co. Ltd. has brought biomedical biosensor chips to the market, demonstrating 2-dimensional image of biomolecules and bio-interactions, based on the electrochemical detection of potential, current, and impedance. These chips are used as a research tool at several laboratories, although there are several issues to be overcome to be used by medical institutions. Such issues will be discussed, in addition to future prospect to realize ‘chemistry integrated circuit’ where two completely different fields, material chemistry and semiconductor technology, are merged.
Medridge co. “Practical application of single cell isolation system and drug discovery support”
Quastella Inc. “Revolutionizing human-driven evaluation in cell culture!
The AI-powered cell quality evaluation system “Cytometa””
Quastella Inc. provides Cytometa, an AI-based quality evaluation system using cell image analysis. By simply uploading microscope images of MSCs, iPS cells and others, you can easily access analysis reports, including evaluations of growth potential and colony comparison.
Cytometa solves the problems of qualitative evaluation and inter-rater variability, enabling standardized evaluation methods through quantitative analysis.