Murata wants to contribute to healthcare by applying its accumulated technologies in the field of microwave components. This is the background why Murata started the biosensor development.

Those biosensors are used to detect proteins, DNA and other biomaterials in whole blood. Applications are anticipated in the clinical diagnostics for the purpose of discovering the hidden causes of diseases and quantifying the state of a patient�fs health.

Murata has been carrying out this development jointly with a Danish venture enterprise.

Those biosensors that measure protein traces in blood apply the same technologies for the microwave components that suppress noise in mobile telephones. Of course, in the development of biosensors, the application and environment for microwave components differ from the mobile telephone applications. Murata is promoting research to find out and secure the best way to realize accurate, stable measurement with these new parameters.

The conventional detection equipment of this kind are very expensive and bulky, and, therefore, those are not well accepted, at this moment, in small-scale clinics and hospitals. However, developing compact and high-precision biosensors are believed to contribute much to more introduction even to small clinics, and also facilitate swift and accurate diagnosis results even by minute blood samples.

By promoting R&D of such biosensors, Murata believes that it will make major contributions to the field of medical diagnostics by providing solutions for the early detection of causes of cardiac diseases.