Ciencia's main business focus is the integration of advanced fluorescence sensing instrumentation, novel fluorescent dyes, and proprietary assay methods with sophisticated analytical systems targeted to broad applications in biomedical research, environmental and industrial markets. Ciencia's goals are to dramatically reduce the size and cost of instrumentation while achieving commensurate increases in assay sensitivity, speed and robustness. The firm then seeks to design, develop and produce fully integrated systems targeted to specific applications through collaboration with strategic partners. Ciencia works in optical diagnostics instrumentation for biomedical, environmental and process analysis markets. Products include tunable optical filters, holographic filters, fiber-optic based sensors for on-line real-time chemical analysis, hyperspectral imaging polarimeters for remote sensing, phase fluorometry instrumentation, Raman spectroscopy instrumentation for optical biopsy of tissues, biosensors and a fluorescence-based cell analysis system. The firm was previously called Techquest Inc.
