Turn your smartphone into a gold-standard DNA analysis tool. No lab necessary.
Biomeme’s platform transforms your smartphone into a mobile lab for advanced DNA diagnostics and real-time disease surveillance. The system includes a docking station for real-time PCR, a mobile app to control the system and analyze results, and targeted test kits for preparing samples and identifying pathogens or diseases by their specific DNA or RNA signatures. The cutting edge platform performs to the gold standard used by the world’s most advanced central labs but requires no lab equipment or special experience to use.
The low-cost, user-friendly system enables mobile testing at the point-of-need for health care (mobile clinics, disease tracking, home use), agriculture (plant disease tracking, food safety), vector surveillance (Malaria, West Nile, Lyme disease), veterinary medicine, environmental monitoring (soil and water safety), and even education and citizen science.
Biomeme and Smith-Root have partnered to create a one-of-its-kind environmental DNA sampling system aimed at providing on-site DNA detection for fisheries surveys. As a partner through our Developer Program, Smith-Root is pairing their new DNA sampling backpack with our device to achieve a complete DNA sampling and detection system. Fisheries scientists are now able to detect invasive species and screen for fish pathogens in just a matter of minutes with our portable diagnostic technology.
Our patented DNA testing platform and personalized data portal allows fisheries scientists to map species detection in real-time, optimizing their time out in the field. This approach has the potential to increase efficiency of fisheries survey efforts by pre-screening lakes and streams for regions of interest prior to using more intensive surveying methods.
The folks at Dreamit Ventures-backed Biomeme have developed a device that will turn your humble iPhone or iPod touch into a lean, mean, mobile DNA replicating machine that they hope will ultimately change how diseases are tracked and treated.
Sounds bold, no? Those lofty ambitions all currently hinge on what’s called a real-time qPCR thermocycler, a generally pricey bit of lab equipment that amplifies traces amounts of DNA into more easily detectable quantities. They’re ideal for detecting diseases, but their heft (and hefty price tags) means that the thousands of small clinics around the world can’t afford to use them with any sort of regularity.