Veterinary diagnostics
Read a rapid test with a phone, keep the photo and the result on file, and see where disease is moving.
Veterinary practices run rapid tests every day, and a technician reads each result by eye. Our software, SNOW, measures the test from a phone photo, keeps the reading on file, and handles the practice's conversations with pet owners and colleagues. We are also developing our own multiplex assays, which test one sample for several targets.
Most rapid test results are never recorded as more than a word
Millions of these tests are run every year. When a result is written down at all, no photo goes with it, and nothing in the chart can be counted across clinics.
Smartphone Networked Optical Workflow
How SNOW reads a test
A technician photographs the cassette with a phone. SNOW finds the result window, measures each zone against the membrane around it, and saves the reading with the patient, clinic, time and place attached. It needs no instrument on the bench, and the photo is kept for a clinician to look at again.
Around the reading
The reading is one part of SNOW. The same software handles the practice's consultations, helps with intake and records, and maps the practice's results beside public case reports for the region.
Consultations and second opinions
Owners send the practice questions, and a veterinarian can ask a colleague for a second opinion, from a phone or a computer.
AI intake and record updates
An assistant labeled as AI takes an owner's history in chat and suggests record updates, and a clinician adds or declines each one.
Disease in your region
The results clinics file feed a county disease map, short-range forecasts and a check for unusual rises.
What we are working on
Of the four programs below, SNOW is the one a clinic can use today. We are building the company around our own assays, and those are still in development.
The reader and the record
The software reads the lateral-flow tests clinics already run, whether they develop bands or spots, and keeps each reading.
Tick-borne and infectious disease
Vector-borne diseases are spreading, and guidelines call for annual screening, but a clinic can test only for the targets on the cassettes it buys.
Oncology and liquid biopsy
We are developing rapid blood tests for cancers that are currently diagnosed late, at high cost, or both.
The data layer
Every reading carries a place and a time, and enough of them together can show where a disease is moving.
Where the science comes from
LateraDX is an early-stage company built on multiplex lateral-flow and reader technology validated through research at The Ohio State University. Two of our three executives hold appointments there, and the oncology biomarker work comes from peer-reviewed studies at the university.