qLMI quantum biosensor platform

A laboratory number from one drop, in three minutes.

Qanik DX measures a molecule directly by watching it bind. No amplification, no wash steps, no sample preparation. The result is quantitative, and it arrives in the doctor's office or at home instead of days later from a central lab.

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MiniLab reader with a single-use test cartridge — MiniLab · 4 hormones · **3–5 min**

3–5 minto a quantitative result

r² = 0.99estradiol in serum, 100 pM–10 nM

<5%error across 100+ serum samples

<1 µLsample at the read surface

The gap in diagnostics

Today you choose between a fast answer and a real number.

Every established test buys its performance by adding a step. Mass spectrometry needs a laboratory. PCR needs amplification. Lateral flow gives up the number to get speed. qLMI keeps the performance and removes the steps.

Central laboratory

Accurate, but days away

Venous draw, centrifuge, courier
Results in hours to days
Ordered only when symptoms appear

Rapid strip tests

Fast, but no number

A line, not a concentration
Known sensitivity limits
Two or three targets at most

qLMI

Fast and quantitative

Laboratory-class concentration
Minutes, from an unprepared sample
Several targets in one read

Technology

qLMI turns a binding event directly into light.

Quantum-Labelled Molecular Interaction brings together four disciplines: receptors designed by AI to mimic the body's own binding sites, surface chemistry that holds them in place, quantum-dot labels, and photon-counting spectral optics.

A receptor waits on the chip
Each receptor carries a quantum dot. A dye-labelled copy of the target sits in its binding site, tethered by a linker, and glows through resonance energy transfer.
The real target displaces the copy
When the molecule you are measuring arrives, it takes the binding site. The dye swings away on its tether and its glow fades.
The rate of fading gives the concentration
The reader tracks how fast the signal falls, so the answer comes from the first minutes of the reaction. A coloured or cloudy sample does not change a slope.
Several targets, one drop
Each receptor type has its own colour. Because the dye stays tethered it can never reach a neighbouring site, so different tests share one chamber without interfering.

Amplification

No thermal cycling, enzymes or cold chain.

Wash steps

A one-step reaction. Nothing for the user to get wrong.

Sample prep

Whole blood and saliva go straight onto the chip.

Fluidics

No pumps, valves or metering. The cartridge is a simple carrier.

Waiting

Read from the initial rate, not a final endpoint.

	Central lab immunoassay	LC-MS/MS	Lateral flow	PCR / NAAT	qLMI
Answer	Quantitative	Reference quantitative	Line or semi-quantitative	Detected / not detected	Quantitative
Time to result	Hours to days	Hours to days	10–20 min	15–60 min	3–5 min
Sample preparation	Centrifuge	Extraction	Minimal	Lysis and extraction	None
Sample volume	Millilitres	Millilitres	Drops	Swab plus buffer	Sub-microlitre
Multiplexing	Sequential	High, in a lab	2–3 lines	2–4 targets	Multi-colour, one read
Where it runs	Reference lab	Reference lab	Anywhere	Lab or near-patient	Anywhere

The reader separates each test by its emission colour, so new tests arrive as new cartridges on the same hardware.

Applications

One platform. Two products ready to build.

The only thing that changes from one test to the next is the receptor. The same physics that measures a hormone in blood detects a virus in saliva.

MiniLab reader beside a phone showing the Qanik DX app and three test cartridges

MiniLab · blood biomarkers

Hormone results during the visit, then at home.

A palm-sized reader and a single-use fingerstick cartridge that measures estradiol, progesterone, testosterone and cortisol in one read. MiniLab reports total hormone, the same quantity and reference ranges physicians already use, so the number means something the moment it appears.

Women's health first: PCOS, fertility, perimenopause, endometriosis, thyroid, and monitoring of breast cancer endocrine therapy.
Razor and blade: an installed reader with recurring single-use cartridges.
A growing menu: 4–6 tests per cartridge; new tests need no new hardware.

Stage one · the clinic

Professional use in physician offices, fertility centres and oncology suites.

Stage two · the home

The same device for lay use, sold with a cartridge subscription.

Single-use saliva activator held below a person's mouth

BioSafety · people and places

A viral-load number from saliva, not just a line.

Spit into a single-use activator and one click filters the sample, mixes it with engineered receptors and presents it to the reader. The same approach reads swabs from floors, desks and handrails, so a facility can see where infection is present before cases are reported.

RECEPTORS VALIDATED ON LIVE VIRUS

SARS-CoV-2RSVInfluenza AInfluenza BCommon cold

New pathogen, new receptor: AI-designed nanobody receptors can be built in weeks and shipped as a cartridge, not a new instrument.
Where blood is not welcome: schools, workplaces, care homes, transport hubs and borders.
Preparedness: a route into outbreak surveillance and government procurement.

The data opportunity

The first longitudinal record of human hormones.

Hormones have only ever been measured one venous draw at a time, from people who already had symptoms. A device people use at home, repeatedly, creates a dataset that does not exist anywhere today.

Trajectories, not snapshots

A cycle, a daily cortisol curve, a perimenopausal transition or a therapy response, measured over time in the same person.

Four hormones at once

Measured together from one sample, so the relationships between them can be observed rather than guessed.

Healthy populations

Data from people who are not patients changes what "normal" means, and gives AI models the training data they have never had.

Beyond the first two products

If it binds, qLMI can measure it.

Animal health

Same-visit endocrine and infection results in the vet's consulting room or in the field.

Food and agriculture

Contaminant, residue and pathogen testing in thick, cloudy samples without a laboratory.

Water and environment

Field measurement of endocrine disruptors and contaminants without sending samples away.

Therapeutic drug monitoring

Repeat quantitative measurement of narrow-margin drugs, close to the patient.

Wearables

ChronoTape, a patch concept for continuous hormone monitoring over seven days.

Countermeasures

Receptors designed to detect a pathogen are a starting point for binders that neutralise it.

Intellectual property

Granted patents that cover the method, not a single test.

The qLMI family claims the measurement itself, including kinetic quantitation, multiplexing on one surface, and reading samples with no preparation. Priority date 11 February 2019.

US 11,650,205 B2

Selective optical detection of organic analytes in liquids. Foundational grant.

Granted May 2023

US 11,899,011 B2

Continuation extending coverage in the same family.

Granted Feb 2024

US 12,553,890 B2

Continuation adding multiplexing and sample-handling claims.

Granted Feb 2026

International

Granted in the EU, Estonia and Canada. Final stages in Australia, South Africa, India and Eurasia.

Granted / pending

Nanobody receptors

Labelled antigen-binding receptor for analyte detection.

Filed 2025

a protein or an oligonucleotide

That is how the claims describe the sensor molecule. A hormone receptor is a protein. A nanobody is a protein. An aptamer is an oligonucleotide. The same patents protect hormone testing, virus detection and applications nobody has built yet.

Partnering

Built to be taken to market by a partner.

Qanik DX is a science company. We are looking for established diagnostics and healthcare companies with the manufacturing, regulatory and commercial reach to bring MiniLab and BioSafety to patients, while our team keeps advancing the platform underneath.

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01Full ownership of the product line in its field
02Exclusive licence to the qLMI patent estate
03Long-term supply of the receptor modules
04Direct support from our scientific team