February 29, 2008

mBio developing device for medical diagnostics

BOULDER – mBio Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Boulder-based Precision Photonics Corp., is developing a product that may drive down some health-care costs.

For the past two years mBio has been working on a low-cost, high-sensitivity medical diagnostic system to detect multiple pathogens, infectious diseases, and respiratory, cardiac and allergy complications.

By reducing the need for lab work and lab instruments, mBio is hoping to supply medical professionals around the world with the mBio instrument.

“One of the motivators for us is that we can make it so inexpensive that we can take it to any laboratory as well as developing countries with the…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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