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Glucose meters allow rapid and quantitative measurement of blood sugar levels for diabetes sufferers worldwide. Now a new method allows this proven technology to be used to quantify a much wider range of analytes.

Approximately 80 participants met at the Marriot Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA, between the 4th and 6th October 2010 to share novel techniques and discuss the emerging approaches in the evolving field of cell-based assay and bioanalytical method development. This report highlights the discussion and summary of the meeting.

The ability to determine expression levels of multiple genetic and/or proteomic signatures simultaneously from the same sample volume is of tremendous importance in a wide range of biomedical applications, including disease diagnostics, drug discovery and fundamental studies of complex biological processes. Unfortunately, many of the tremendously enabling genomic and proteomic technologies available to the academic are not applicable in the clinical setting. Combining traditional chemical and biological insight with cutting-edge concepts from materials science, physics and engineering, our group brings an interdisciplinary approach to developing new tools in order to tackle longstanding refractory problems in the biological sciences - technologies that will enable fundamental biological discovery and, in some applications, expedite the transfer of biomolecular insight to the hands of the physician, where it can directly impact patient care.