Spartan Bioscience is gearing up to launch what it calls the world’s smallest commercial molecular diagnostics device, a coffee cup-sized portable testing tool called the Spartan Cube.
Should the Cube live up to its vision of enabling anyone to quickly perform DNA testing, as the company declared May 31, it could further disrupt an already-growing market for point-of-care molecular diagnostic tests—a market that is projected to more-than-triple to $3.9 billion by 2024, up from $1.2 billion last year, according to Grand View Research. Rosy forecast aside, point-of-care molecular diagnostics still face numerous challenges that threaten to slow down the expected future growth and lessen its odds of widespread adoption by healthcare providers.
