Abstract
Microelectronics, which has led to the explosion of consumer electronics sales, could now bring its added value to the Life Science applications. The key challenge for microelectronics is to make complexity invisible and adapt it to the value chain and way of working of the life science industries
Microsystems technologies are changing the Life Sciences industry. New in vitro diagnostic systems, new therapy strategies, genetic diseases treatment, targeted and intelligent drug delivery, artificial pancreas, drug discovery processes… are health improvement promised to the future generations, enabled by semiconductor and MEMS technologies. The Life Sciences industry already faces critical challenges to take its way to its expected market.
To take part in this innovation process, it is very important to understand the technology and industrial trends by having a good comprehension on the current used technologies, their limits and advantages, the applications and the way the Life Sciences are working. Indeed, Life Science is a broad field including industries like drug discovery, in vitro diagnostic, medical devices, instrumentation… In the same way, the market is segmented by applications, technologies and medical use.
BioMEMS 2008 report answer the question: How Microsystems or Semiconductor companies could become key suppliers of the Life Sciences field?
The report will enable you to:
- Understand the life science market and define your strategy to address it
- Understand the main requirements in terms of regulation (FDA, CE…)
- Get an overview of the main techniques in use or under development and the trends for the coming years
- Understand the real added value of Microsystems and Semiconductor for the life science industry
- Understand the main MEMS and semiconductor Success stories in the Life Science market
BioMEMS report provides an introduction to molecular biology with basic concepts presentation to better understand the biology fields and challenges. It particularly describes biological materials (nucleic acids, proteins, peptides, etc...), their size scales and interaction to highlight and make understandable the biological complexity.
The report is bringing a lot of value to IC manufacturers, MEMS manufacturers, materials and equipment suppliers and system manufacturers to better understand the business potential, the technology status, the value chain of life science market and who is doing what for strategic and marketing decision making.
Exemple of companies analysed in this report: Affymetrix, Agilent, Aventis, bioMérieux, Infineon, microParts, Moto, Novartis, Philips, Psivida, STM…
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Purpose of the report
What is the Life Sciences field?
- Main industrial domains and related applications
- Overview of the main markets in Life Sciences field
- Pharmaceutical industry
- In Vitro Diagnostic industry
- Medical Device industry
Includes definitions, facts & figures, top 10 players…
Presentation of the gold standard techniques used today in Life Sciences
- Culture and Sample preparation techniques
- Amplification (PCR)
- Detection (Optical, electrical, magnetic…)
Impact of microtechnologies on Life Science technologies
- Impact of microtechnologies on gold standard techniques
- What are BioMEMS & Biochips?
- Detailed analysis of microtechnology-based devices for Life Science applications:
- Drivers in Life Science markets MST may answer
- Regulation aspects (FDA, CE…)
- Existing applications and future MST products in the Life Science markets
- Players and products example
- Examples of companies' success stories
BioMEMS market size potential 2005 - 2012
- Pressure and flow sensors
- Accelerometers
- Gyroscopes
- Microphones
- Microfluidic devices
Why semiconductor devices and MEMS could be useful for Life Sciences applications?
- MST added-value in the Life Science markets
- MST materials and their added value for Life Science applications
- Packaging techniques and their added value
- Value chain analysis for biochips
Conclusions
- Synthesis and challenges for the future
- Key ingredients to succeed in this field
Annexes
The world of Biology - Definitions
- Cell, DNA, Proteins,… Who' s who?
- Biology and Micro/Nano Technology comparative scale
- Molecular Biology, a complex world
- Levels for Molecular Biology analysis: The OMICS World
- Main technologies and applications
