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Dispositivo microfluidico per contrastare la crisi della resistenza antimicrobica (AMR) in ambito sanitario.
March 2020, Astek Diagnostics LLC, won the Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) Award to develop a microfluidic device to detect bacterial infections in blood and evaluate the antimicrobial susceptibility. Astek, in partnership with Potomac Photonics Inc., will be designing a state-of-the art microfluidic lab-on-chip sensor for rapid detection of microorganisms in bodily fluids (like, blood, urine,…
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Black Lives Matter: dalla retorica all'azione per le aziende statunitensi
We are seeing so many emails and blog posts from companies that say: “We Stand With Black Lives Matter Protesters”. But when all is said and done, how does a company move beyond rhetoric to action? Saying you support the Black Lives Matter movement is a far cry from hiring and training black people locally…
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Potomac aggiunge funzionalità di controllo microfluidico di precisione con le pompe Flow EZ all'avanguardia.
Quality assurance is at the heart of everything we manufacture at Potomac. It is our attention to product and process control that ensures every microfluidic device, consumer product, medical device and electronic component meets our customers’ rigid standards. Manufacturing Microfluidic technology in particular requires strong quality processes. In order to fabricate high performing microfluidic devices…
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Proteggere le persone in tempi di Coronavirus alla velocità della luce
The modern world is an interconnected ecosystem and this heartwarming story that started with a cat named Ace shows how fast responses changes lives for our customers. Ace Heidi Leonard is a research chemist at NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Gaithersburg, MD. She lives in Baltimore with her one and half…
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Potomac Photonics in prima linea nella produzione di dispositivi di protezione individuale contro il coronavirus
Necessity is truly the mother of invention and the war against the coronavirus has created a worldwide wave of innovation to fight the pandemic. No need is greater than the protection of healthcare workers, front line support, emergency teams, firefighters, police, and caregivers. With Personal Protective Equipment [PPE] in short supply, Potomac jumped into the front…
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Microfluidica a goccia: creare un impatto
With the need to rapidly develop and commercialize new products including biopharmaceuticals, medical diagnostic kits and recombinant proteins and organisms, companies need the ability to rapidly perform chemical and biochemical experiments. In particular, the ability to scale up to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of experiments is a requirement in todays…
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Quaderno di processo Potomac Photonics: Micro Pilastri
When it comes to microfluidics, packing purpose into every micron is a true design challenge. The design of individual features starts with defining their purpose in the overall function of the device. Today we are spotlighting one of these common features: micro pillars. Micropillar arrays serve a multitude of purpose in the function of microfluidics.…
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Il ruolo del lavoro di squadra per arrivare al Super Bowl o vincere nella produzione avanzata
Perhaps no other sport exemplifies the importance of teamwork as well as football. The integration of each position into a concerted strategy is the key to winning games and going on to championships like the Super Bowl. One player alone cannot carry an entire team where there are holes in either offense or defense as…
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Previsioni di Potomac per le tecnologie del 2020 che avranno un impatto sulla produzione avanzata
The coming year promises to see the adoption of technologies that have matured enough to impact a wide range of industries. Here are our predictions for the new capabilities that will be impacting advanced manufacturing and how Potomac and our customers will be leading the way into a new future. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning…
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Luce di festa
Holidays during this time of year, when days are short, emphasize light. Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Light, commemorates the miracle of a one-day supply of oil miraculously lasting eight days during the Maccabees battle for freedom and allowing for the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem. In Christianity, the Wise Men followed a bright…
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In questo Giorno del Ringraziamento rendiamo grazie per vivere in un'epoca di cambiamento tecnologico esponenziale che sta migliorando la qualità della vita dell'umanità
We live an exciting period of innovation. Electric cars are being rolled out by mainstream car companies; self-driving vehicles are being road-tested; farms and grocery stores use robots to do repetitive tasks; medical diagnostics is taking just a few minutes or hours to pinpoint an illness; and, many products from dental braces to aerospace components…
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Potomac Photonics si aggiudica un subappalto in collaborazione con UMBC e FDA per sviluppare un dispositivo microfluidico per il rilevamento "in loco" della carica microbica.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST), a 3-year grant for the commercialization of a microfluidic device for Rapid bioburden detection in pharmaceutical production. Potomac Photonics was selected as a sub-contractor to focus on the design, scale-up and manufacturing of the microfluidic…
