Laboratory Supplies

Traditional approaches to large scale genotyping involve numerous microwell plates, large amounts of costly reagents and dispensing robotics to cope with the intensive liquid handling.

According to Mike Lucero, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing at Fluidigm, the IFCs are three dimensional microfluidic devices that have 48 reagent ports and 48 reaction ports that allow 2,304 parallel nano-volume reactions in each IFC.

This is achieved by driving a precise amount of reagents and reactants into chambers in the IFC that are limited by valves.

"Microfluidics got the reputation for not being able to find the appropriate application - but its inside out because in the past microfluidics didn't have the valves so they couldn't achieve the integration and miniaturisation that we have now - it's the valves that make the difference," said Lucero

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