Silicon BioDevices Inc. is looking to save critical time in heart attack diagnosis as well as billions of dollars in health care costs with the first lab-quality, reader-free, POC device for high-sensitivity measurement of cardiac troponin, a key marker of cardiac damage. Using one drop of whole blood, the company's self-contained blood test provides results within 15 minutes to determine whether or not a patient has experienced a heart attack.

This Month's Profile Groups: Ocular Gene Therapy Sees The Light, features profiles of Avalanche Biotechnologies, Eyevensys, GenSight Biologics, and Hemera Biosciences; Smart Orthopedic Implants, feature profiles of OrthoData and Ortho-tag. Plus these Start-Ups Across Health Care: Colibri Heart Valve, Complix, Helmedix, Mapi Pharma, Mendor, Oligomerix, QuantuMDx, Silicon BioDevices, and Vigilant Biosciences.