U-RHYTHM PORTABLE COLLECTION DEVICE
Origins
The first prototype was invented by Professor Stafford Lightman and colleagues at the University of Bristol to aid diagnosis and treatment of hormone-related diseases that - owing to the pulsatile nature of hormone release - are either difficult to detect or monitor.
Funding
Development has been supported by grants from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and European Commission Research and Innovation programmes.
Development
The portable collection device is now in its third generation and has been developed by Designworks Windsor, a creative product design consultancy.
Analysis
In our studies, we use state of the art mass spectrometry and proteomics techniques to analyse the samples collected using U-RHYTHM.