Customised lyophilised beads. Single dose accuracy, manufactured at scale.
Lyophilised reagent beads are customisable spheres containing an accurately measured single dose of formulation.
Offering all of the stabilisation, transportation and storage benefits of traditional lyophilised formats, beads present a range of additional benefits designed to deliver greater accuracy, improve efficiency and reduce costs.
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Key benefits of Lyophilised beads
The future of Point of Care testing
Point of Care testing offers the accuracy of laboratory based testing but delivers results in minutes or hours rather than days.
Lyophilising the molecular and enzymatic reagents within Point of care devices is challenging, traditionally requiring them to be dispensed within the device and then lyophilising in-situ. However this requires a freeze-drying capacity significantly larger than necessary, simply to accommodate the volume of cartridges.
Beads provide a perfect solution for lyophilising reagents for use in Point of Care platforms. A single accurate dose of the reagent is lyophilised in a durable sphere which can then be sub-assembled into cartridges at a later stage in the manufacturing process.
This provides a far more efficient and cost-effective use of freeze-drying capacity, resulting in a throughput uplift of up to 1000 times the volumes achieved by lyophilising in-situ
