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Imec Awarded Grant from NASA to Advance Space Health Diagnostics

miDiagnostics’ disposable blood testing device to be evaluated by imec for use in zero gravity environments.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Imec announced it has received NASA funding to test a technology for monitoring astro-nauts’ health status under zero gravity conditions using a first-of-its-kind disposable diag-nostic device developed by imec’s spin-off, miDiagnostics. Imec will design test parameters and perform experiments in different gravity scenarios using one of miDiagnostics’ devices that is built around a silicon-based nanofluidic proces-sor that performs a series of blood sample manipulations yielding a cell blood co...

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