A Connected Lab-In-A-Box For On-Demand Health Testing

As quantified self and quantified health trends frequently overlap, only a handful of startups are tightly screwed into that sticking place. Cue is one of them; a San Diego-based startup, which was founded back in 2009 in the midst of the swine flu peak.

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Attracting more than $1 million in backing from an undisclosed U.S. angel investor, the startup is focused on building a hybrid electronic-mechanical-chemical connected device that will enable people to quantify their health at a molecular level.

Corresponding App

The device will then use the resulting data to tweak your lifestyle for the better, with the help of its accompanying Smartphone app.This can aid in everything from identifying the most fertile times in your cycle to trying for a baby to identify a vitamin deficiency and tweak your diet to compensate.

Recover faster

With Cue, you will be able to run your own before and after’ experiments at home to quantify whether a particular fitness routine or diet has a beneficial result on your body. The lab here is the Cue device itself, and it connects to your smartphone by Bluetooth to feed data into the Cue app.

How It Works

Using time-tested basics, the components of Cue are antibody based and provide very specific targeting of molecules. Biosensors and microfluidics have been implemented in the making of Cue, so that these basics can be executed in a very compact and automated manner.

Biosensor + Microfluid Technology

By converting a biological sample to an electrical signal or digital result, the technology makes use of the most fundamental principles of biochemistry in its execution. When a biological sample is inputted, it reacts with the chemistry to create an electrical signal that is taken in from a sensor on the cartridge to transform it into an electric signal. This signal is translated into a digital result and transported via Bluetooth to your Smartphone.