Digital PCR

Formulatrix Constellation Digital PCR

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Summary: A new digital PCR instrument with two different sample throughput formats (24 and 96), many more partitions, and more colors to enable multiplexing The digital PCR market continues growing, as it finds its continued utility for absolute quantitation of nucleic acids for a multitude of applications, from rare virus detection in infectious disease to … Read more

SlipChip technology for digital PCR

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Executive “TL;DR” Summary: An interesting platform called SlipChip with potential point-of-care applications, for fast and potentially very inexpensive digital PCR Update: This work has been recently published (Oct 2017) in Science Translational Medicine. While at the recent Next Generation Diagnostics Summit (organized by the Cambridge Healthtech Institute and held in Washington DC August 15-18 2017), … Read more

Formulatrix and an inexpensive digital PCR for NGS library quantitation

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Formulatrix Digital PCR Plate
Underside of the Formulatrix Digital PCR Plate

The American Society for Human Genetics 2013 Annual Meeting was held this week in Boston. Starting from Tuesday and going through Saturday, there are ancillary meetings both before and after (and Life Technologies had an Ion World event the two days prior). As one of the two ‘main event’ trade-show exhibits for the genomics tool-providers (the other being the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology in Marco Island FL every February), you can learn a lot by walking around and talking to different vendors.

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The new QuantStudio 3D™ digital PCR instrument

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QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System
The QuantStudio 3D, image courtesy of Life Technologies.

You may (or may not) have heard about digital PCR, which is set to be the next application set to explode in the gene expression market. But Life Technologies has a continuing investment in genetic analysis, and this new instrument, the QuantStudio 3D, demonstrates it.

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