Getting More From the Gold You Already Trust

Image of technician in lab reading an LFA strip, with VigilantDX reader in background.

The Value and Limits of Vigilant Diagnostics Thermal Contrast Amplification™ Technology in Lateral Flow. Colloidal gold has been the workhorse label of lateral flow assays for decades. It’s cheap, it’s stable, it’s manufactured at enormous scale, and — critically — it sits inside assays that developers have already validated and, in many cases, already put…

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Vigilant’s Latest Technology Presentation

Title slide for Dr. John Bischof's presentation at the IIB Lecture Series

On July 15, 2025, the International Institute for Biosensing (IIB) hosted Prof. John Bischof in its Precision Sensing Lecture Series. Bischof, the founder of Vigilant Diagnostics, is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and a faculty member in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. He serves as Director of both the University of Minnesota…

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