Technology

Innovative Options Available for Automated Liquid Handling System Upgrade
A number of new hardware and software options that enable biotech and other life science researchers to perform a much wider range of applications are now available to augment a line of advanced automated sample and liquid handling platforms. More...19 Aug 2015



Newly Developed Mobile Phone Device Reads ELISA Plates
A multidisciplinary team of scientists and clinicians have developed a handheld smartphone-based device that can quickly read standard 96-well microplates with the same level of accuracy as the platforms commonly used in central clinical laboratories. The device, made by 3-D printing, attaches to the smartphone. More...17 Aug 2015


Turbocharged Thermal Cycling Leads to Ultrafast DNA Diagnostics
Nucleic acid amplification and quantification via polymerase chain reaction is one of the most sensitive and powerful tools for clinical laboratories, precision medicine, personalized medicine, and other scientific fields. More...12 Aug 2015

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