We are very fortunate to be based in Cambridge, a city buzzing with entrepreneurs and with a high concentration of companies within the medical/scientific industries striving to make advances to benefit society. One of our latest customers fits both of these as they are a spin-out from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, born out of a frustration at the lack of suitable laboratory tools available to understand how proteins function.

Fluidic Analytics is driven to developing tools that have the potential to revolutionise medical care by understanding protein changes in real-time. Why is this important? Proteins are the direct, real-time indicators of the state of a biological system. While DNA can tell us that a person is likely to develop a given disease at some point in life, it is proteins that signal whether that same person is actually developing the disease at a given point in time.

Being able to detect and identify subtle changes in an individual’s proteins will enable a more effective treatment plan to be put in place – ensuring treatment is delivered at the correct time to achieve optimum results and minimise exposure to side effects.

We worked with Fluidic Analytics to develop a prototype user interface for the scientific machine utilising their experience of hardware development and scientific understanding. The first stage of the project was a success and we are now working closely with them to develop a production version of the software. Read more about this exciting project.