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About » History / Overview
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Overview
Roboscreen is a German Biotech company focused on development, manufacture and marketing of products and services based on a new industrial standard for quantitative diagnosis of nucleic acids on the basis of a company owned, patented technology platform and the improvement of conventional protein detection by means of highly sensitive molecular diagnostic tools.
History
In June 2000 a strategic meeting between leading representatives of the Invitek GmbH (Berlin), a well known manufacturer of nucleic acid purification kits and researchers from the Leipzig University School of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics was held. The background of this meeting was to combine Invitek`s patented sample preparation technology with the unique know how of two university researchers exceptionally experienced in standardized large-scale quantitation of nucleic acids and proteins. Only 3 month later a biotech joint venture under the Roboscreen trademark was founded which ideally combined all crucial steps for quantitative analysis of biomolecules.
Based on more than 10 years of university career the four company founders realized the idea to develop and applicate innovative new products for standardized automated sample preparation and high-throughput quantitative analysis of low-copy nucleic acids and proteins for medical diagnosis based on the industrial standard of the future: the "intelligent reaction vessel". Intelligent vessels mean that common glass capillaries or plastic tubes required for either standardized nucleic acid extraction or quantification are already precoated with defined amounts of distinct reference DNA or RNA, respectively, and are manufactured by a novel technology covered by an international patent application already issued to Germany in 2003.
New properties like ready-to-use applicability, storage and delivery even at room temperature, highly reproducible data recovery, etc. are making this technology highly convenient even for beginners in molecular diagnostics.
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