C orporation Attotron is a new company devoted to research and development of new technologies for low-cost biosensors and related products for the research and educational markets. Our goal is to be able to detect very small concentrations of biologically important substances using computerized sensors. Biosensors are devices that use biological molecules to detect other biological molecules or chemical substances. Typically, the detector molecule must be connected in some way to a sensor that can be monitored by a computer. We have recently completed phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop educational molecular biology simulation software.
Prototypes are now available to qualified beta testers for evaluation purposes.
Please see the Cybertory Home Page for more details. These programs may be used at no cost. We plan to develop low-cost molecular biology equipment for educational and research use, including computerized sensors for specific DNA sequences and proteins in solution. We'll be putting new information here periodically. See the current list of biosensor review articles pulled from MedLine using PubMed .