Inside a nondescript office park in Silicon Valley, a robotic arm is running a test. With rapid, precise movements, the arm pipettes colored liquids into wells on a tray. Within a few minutes its work is done: the arm has pipetted the logo for Transcriptic, a fast-growing, Google-backed robotics startup that could upend the way biologists do their research.
Transcriptic's small team is calibrating the robot arm, which serves as the linchpin of the company's efforts to transform life-science research by making it cheaper and more accessible. Scientists send in raw materials — DNA, for example, or biopsied mouse tissue — and tell Transcriptic what to do with it. Costs for the service start at a few dollars per test, and the turnaround...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5216738/inside-the-robot-lab-that-could-decimate-the-bioscience-industry
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