Advancing women’s wellness: innovation in at-home diagnostics for breast health
Translating scientific insight into real-world, consumer-ready products remains a complex challenge. Our team work with consumer health leaders and MedTech innovators who are under increasing pressure to deliver accessible, preventative, user-led healthcare experiences, faster than ever before.
Our Sagentia Medical division develops medical-grade technologies, alongside our Sagentia Innovation practice that focuses on consumer health products, grounded in a deep understanding of user needs and market dynamics. Operating at the intersection of these two domains provides a unique perspective, revealing where emerging technologies align with unmet health needs, and where new opportunities for innovation exist.
By combining scientific rigour with user-centred design, our teams of technologists, scientists and product designers actively explore these opportunity areas, translating insight into tangible concepts. One such exploration led to the development of celleste™.
Consumer health need identified
Mastitis remains a common but under-supported condition, with diagnosis often dependent on symptoms and access to healthcare professionals. This can delay intervention and add further pressure during an already demanding life stage.
To address this, we developed celleste™, an at-home diagnostic device concept designed to detect mastitis before symptoms appear.
- The challenge: 1 in 4 mothers experience mastitis, yet there are no pre-symptomatic, at-home diagnostic tools
- The opportunity: Use clinically validated biomarkers to enable earlier preventative intervention in the home
- The solution: A simple, intuitive handheld device that measures somatic cell count (SCC) in breastmilk using impedance-based biosensing technology
The concept reframes a traditionally reactive, clinical process into a proactive, preventative health solution, designed to integrate naturally into everyday routines.
celleste™ highlights an opportunity to:
- Extend clinically grounded diagnostics into the home
- Enable earlier awareness and more timely intervention
- Translate complex biological signals into clear, actionable insight
- Deliver support in a way that aligns with real-world behaviours and routines
Our approach to consumer health innovation
Sagentia Innovation brings together expertise across multiple disciplines to deliver next generation consumer technologies:
- Biological sciences
- Strategic advisory and value propositions for consumer health industry
- Biosensor and diagnostic technology
- Human-centred design grounded in everyday behaviours
- Connected health and digital platforms
- End-to-end product development
This integrated approach enables organisations to move from early-stage insight to validated concept, helping to accelerate innovation pipelines while reducing technical and commercial risk.
