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The search for antibody therapeutic candidates is a timely and important challenge well-suited to lab on a chip approaches. Vancouver-based AbCellera Biologics Inc. developed a microfluidic antibody screening platform, ancillary technologies, and a service-based drug discovery business model that has proved a tremendous success. We take the opportunity here to reflect on what enabled this success. We consider the common lab on a chip motivations that were part of their success, and those that were not.
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Productos Biológicos , Técnicas Analíticas Microfluídicas , Descubrimiento de Drogas , Dispositivos Laboratorio en un Chip , MicrofluídicaRESUMEN
Recent advances in cell-free synthetic biology have given rise to gene circuit-based sensors with the potential to provide decentralized and low-cost molecular diagnostics. However, it remains a challenge to deliver this sensing capacity into the hands of users in a practical manner. Here, we leverage the glucose meter, one of the most widely available point-of-care sensing devices, to serve as a universal reader for these decentralized diagnostics. We describe a molecular translator that can convert the activation of conventional gene circuit-based sensors into a glucose output that can be read by off-the-shelf glucose meters. We show the development of new glucogenic reporter systems, multiplexed reporter outputs and detection of nucleic acid targets down to the low attomolar range. Using this glucose-meter interface, we demonstrate the detection of a small-molecule analyte; sample-to-result diagnostics for typhoid, paratyphoid A/B; and show the potential for pandemic response with nucleic acid sensors for SARS-CoV-2.