High-performance sample prep on-cartridge
Any developer of a sample-to-answer device knows that getting sample prep working on-cartridge is a major source of risk. It makes matters worse that issues with sample prep usually arise late in the development process. Sample prep is often responsible when product...
The state of safely reopening amid COVID-19
Ready or not, states are moving ahead to re-open and workers are returning to their places of employment. Understandably, many American workers are concerned about personal safety and what it means to get back into the workplace and be alongside their co-workers. ...
What COVID-19 teaches us about diagnostic Whack-a-Mole
The first SARS-CoV-2 sequence was released on January 10, just 40 days after the incidence of pneumonia started to rise in Wuhan, China. The World Health Organization released its first diagnostic testing guidelines just one week later, on January 17. By any measure,...
Translating Laboratory Performance to Your Point-of-care Device
Across the life sciences, the pressure to achieve faster results, and reduce costs, is driving a transition to sample-to-answer platforms. Molecular diagnostics are moving from industrial liquid handling systems to point-of-care devices. The next generation of...