Services
Assay development and lyophilization, in the format you need
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Custom assay development
We develop diagnostic assays with the dried format in mind from day one, so the chemistry doesn't have to be reworked later.
- Assay design around lyophilization-friendly components
- Enzyme, excipient and additive selection
- Testing for sensitivity and reproducibility
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Single-dose reagent beads
Your reagent mix, dispensed and freeze-dried into precise spheres that stay stable at room temperature.
- One bead per reaction
- Room-temperature storage and shipping
- Beads can be checked before they go into a device
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Lyo-cakes
Conventional freeze-dried cakes in tubes or cartridges when a bead isn't the right fit.
- Formulation tuned for a clean cake
- Fill volume to suit the assay
- Reconstitution checks
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In-cartridge and porous-material drying
Reagents freeze-dried directly inside microfluidic cartridges, or onto porous materials, to fit your device.
- Drying inside microfluidic cartridges
- Drying onto porous materials
- Built around your device design
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Lyophilization process development
Freeze-drying recipes developed and documented for your formulation, ready to repeat.
- Cycle design and optimization
- Stability under real storage conditions
- Documented, repeatable process
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Packaging and formats
Dried reagents packed the way your workflow uses them.
- PCR 8-strip tubes
- 96-well plates
- Custom formats on request
Why dried beads
The point-of-care standard for putting reagents in a cartridge
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Long shelf life
Dried reagents stay stable for far longer than liquids.
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No cold chain
Store and ship at room temperature instead of frozen or chilled.
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Lower cost
Drying beads costs less than freeze-drying reagents inside finished cartridges.
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Less waste
Beads are tested before cartridge assembly, so a bad reaction doesn't cost a whole multiplex cartridge.
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Far less shelf space
Beads take about a hundredth of the freeze-dryer shelf space that whole cartridges need.
Product line
Blank qPCR master mix beads
Ready-made, freeze-dried qPCR beads that hold everything a reaction needs except your primers, probe and template. They are built on enzymes, master mixes, excipients and additives chosen to survive drying.
Many teams build an assay in liquid first and only try to dry it near the end, which can mean picking new enzymes and redeveloping the assay. Starting with blank beads avoids that.
- Skip the slow, costly work of choosing enzymes and excipients
- Shorter process development and validation
- Much lower risk of losing sensitivity or stability when you dry
- Several polymerases from leading manufacturers, with a selection kit to compare them side by side
- Standard beads support 20 µL reactions; other reaction volumes on request
- Enzymes from a specific source on request
- Packed in PCR 8-strip tubes, 96-well plates or a custom format
Catalog
Call for pricing- LL-QM-001qPCR master mix beads, 20 µL reactions1 × PCR 8-strip
- LL-QL-001qPCR master mix beads, 20 µL reactions1 × PCR 8-strip
- LL-QE-001qPCR master mix beads, 20 µL reactions1 × PCR 8-strip
- LL-QR-001qPCR master mix beads, 20 µL reactions1 × PCR 8-strip
- LL-QT-001Selection kit: 4 different master mixes, each in its own 8-strip4 × PCR 8-strip
- LL-QM-002qPCR master mix beads, 20 µL reactions1 × 96-well plate
- LL-QL-002qPCR master mix beads, 20 µL reactions1 × 96-well plate
- LL-QE-002qPCR master mix beads, 20 µL reactions1 × 96-well plate
- LL-QR-002qPCR master mix beads, 20 µL reactions1 × 96-well plate