{"id":375,"date":"2010-08-03T11:01:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T15:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:01:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T15:01:42","slug":"nanotech-firm-commercializing-biotechnology-research-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Nanotech Firm Commercializing Biotechnology Research Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shrinknano.com\/\">Shrink Nanotechnologies<\/a>, a nanotechnology company in Carlsbad, California, announced today formation of a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Shrink Chips LLC, to commercialize biotechnology research tools. Among its offerings is the ShrinkChip Rapid Prototyping System (RPS) to manufacture microfluidic chips, also known as lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices, as well as other biological and chemical sensors.<\/p>\n<p>LOC devices are used to screen new drugs for toxicity levels, and develop new vaccines, therapeutics and drug therapies for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Parkinson&#8217;s and Alzheimer&#8217;s. The company says the use of and analysis from LOC devices, particularly for prototyping, is a high cost for R&amp;D operations in both academia and industry. Shrink expects enterprises using its RPS technology for testing, prototyping and small-scale production will benefit from greater design flexibility and lower costs.<\/p>\n<p>The first line of products will include &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A desktop-sized rapid prototyping platform for use in government laboratories, academic research facilities and commercial organizations<\/li>\n<li>A self-contained biotechnology test kit for academic use in high school biology labs through graduate studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shrink Nanotechnologies, a nanotechnology company in Carlsbad, California, announced today formation of a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Shrink Chips LLC, to commercialize biotechnology research tools. Among its offerings is the ShrinkChip Rapid Prototyping System (RPS) to manufacture microfluidic chips, also known as lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices, as well as other biological and chemical sensors. LOC devices are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21,18],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-biotech","tag-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}