A Diagnostics & Imaging Week

Microfluidic Systems (MFSI; Fremont, California) said it has signed agreements with Applied Biosystems (Foster City, California) and Hamilton Sundstrand (Pomona, California) for the continued development and production of MFSI’s Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector (BAND). These new systems in development are intended to improve the detection of airborne pathogens that could contaminate the air in a city or large region.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has been funding BAND development for the past three years through Phases I-III of the BAND program, which is a government program dedicated to monitoring air quality, particularly focused on biosecurity threats, such as anthrax, plague and smallpox.