The AquaSorter, a solution to automate the screening and sorting of fish eggs for the aquaculture industry

This month's article will target the amazing news that we received in May! Bionomous was selected to receive the support of Innosuisse in the frame of the Swiss Accelerator. Our project AQUASORTER (Automation and QUAlity SORting Tools for thE aquacultuRe industry) will receive the necessary funding to adapt our current technology for the fish farms industry. Our project focuses on the fish farms industry as there is a need to increase the efficiency of this industry to respond to a  global demand. In fact, aquaculture is expected to provide over…

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Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Europe 2023

Bionomous is participating in SLAS Europe 2023 as an Innovation AveNEW exhibitor! The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Europe 2023 will take place in Brussels from 22.05.2023 to 26.05.2023. The SLAS is a non-profit professional community made up of scientists who are focused on technology in order to promote automation in laboratories. This year, the conference will be focused on four topics: Biology Unveiled, Frontiers in Technology, Shaping the Future of Therapeutics and Bio-Entrepreneurship in Europe.Bionomous will exhibit the EggSorter as an Innovation AveNew exhibitor! Companies selected for Innovation AveNEW are given the opportunity to elevate…

Small model organisms

Over the past years, zebrafish have proven to be excellent model systems for a wide panel of experiments. We have discussed throughout our previous articles their advantages and disadvantages, how they could be incorporated to various research fields and different automation techniques which facilitate their handling in laboratories. Today we will discuss 4 other model organisms: Drosophila melanogaster, Xenopus laevis, Caenorhabditis elegans and Arabidopsis thaliana, all have in common their genetic similarity to humans, their ease of care and prolific breeding. While this last feature is particularly useful for studies requiring…

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Studying zebrafish behaviour: robotics and automation

In today's article we will take a step back from zebrafish embryos and discuss how adult zebrafish collective behaviours can be studied using robotic systems.Danio rerio, commonly known as zebrafish is a small but robust cyprinid, commonly found in food plains of the south of Asia, particularly India. They thrive in shallow and slow flowing-waters and can generally be found in standing water bodies, often connected to rice cultivation. This is most likely due to the high content of zooplankton in rice cultivations, a major component of the zebrafish diet. Zebrafish…

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ILMAC Lausanne 2020

Meet us at ILMAC 2020 in Lausanne!Since 1959, ILMAC has been the sole Swiss industry fair for chemicals and life sciences that depicts all the industrial applications in process and laboratory technology. As a user-oriented trade fair, ILMAC is geared to experts in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, biotechnology, food, drinks, cosmetics and others.Bionomous will be present at this year edition. You can meet us on the 7th October at the Expo Beaulieu Lausanne. Share if you liked it!

Forum EPFL 2020

We will be at Forum EPFL!Year after year, committee after committee, the Forum has progressed towards the 1st place of Switzerland’s recruitment fairs, and among the most well-recognized in Europe. This year edition will take place from 5th to 9th of October 2020 at the SwissTech Convention Center. At Bionomous we are happy to announce that we will participate in the Start-Up Day, on the 6th October. We will be in the Garden level of the SwissTech Convention Center (area 2) waiting to meet you. Share if you liked it!

High-throughput screening and automation technologies for zebrafish assays

Although zebrafish have been described numerous times as ideal organism models, manual handling of zebrafish embryos can turn out to be complex and time consuming due to their small size and the large quantities of samples usually required in an experimental setup (1). To increase efficiency of such studies, it has been crucial to develop fast and automated screening methods.  In this article we will discuss various high-throughput screening methods and automation technologies which have been developed and proven to be very helpful for zebrafish embryo and larval assays. What…

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