ALine provides its customers in the areas of medical research, medical instrumentation, medical diagnostics, laboratory instrumentation, field instrumentation, and flight rated equipment with a sophisticated array of standard and custom bio micro solutions based on its versatile, bio compatible, precision laser cut, multilayer polymer laminate manufacturing technology. Applications include spectroscopy, environmental analysis, membrane separations, antibiotic response, cell toxicity, automated cell culture, and multiplexed drug matrix analysis.

ALine’s flagship standard product, the FluoroVette™, provides an easy to fill micro volume sample chamber with a short path, UV transparent, optical window that is ready to be mounted on a standard microscope stage or simply slipped into a companion adapter and mounted in the measurement port of a standard spectrofluorometer. Far more economical and easy to use than a quartz cuvette, ALine’s disposable FluoroVette™ comes in a number of micro volume, fill port, and UV transparency options

ALine’s custom bio-micro products range from enhancements to the popular Fluorovette™ to the design, prototyping, and volume production of sophisticated bio micro fluidic cards. Whether it is the stat analysis of antibiotic resistant bacteria for a patient with sepsis, the point of care diagnosis of a specific carrier gene for genetic counseling, or the leading edge research for a pharmaceutical company, custom bio micro fluidic cards can provide a superior solution.

One of ALine’s custom bio micro cards has successfully been flown on NASA Ames’ GenSat-1 mission in support of multiplexed cell cultures in a nanosatellite, zero gravity experiment. Using its naturally rugged bio compatible lamination method, ALine assembled a 12 well, bio micro cell culture card using sheets and films of bio compatible material that were laser cut to the custom design requirements. A key to the success was the development of an advanced process for inserting porous membranes.