CENTRIFUGAL LABTUBE FOR FULLY AUTOMATED DNA EXTRACTION & LAMP AMPLIFICATION BASED ON AN INTEGRATED, LOW-COST HEATING SYSTEM
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Hoehl, Melanie Margarete; Weibert, Michael; Paust, Nils; Zengerle, Roland; Slocum, Alexander H.; Steigert, Juergen; ... Show more Show less
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In this paper, we introduce a disposable battery-driven heating system for loop-mediated isothermal DNA amplification (LAMP) inside a centrifugally-driven DNA-extraction platform (LabTube). We demonstrate fully automated, fully closed extraction of as little as 100 DNA copies of verotoxin-producing (VTEC) Escherichia coli lysate in water, milk and apple juice in a standard laboratory centrifuge, followed by subsequent automatic LAMP amplification with an overall time-to-result of 1.5hrs. The system is disposable, fully closed and automated, requiring only a single pipetting step. The microcontroller-driven heating system is low-cost (<1$) and it can be easily parallelized. Because the heated LabSystem runs within a standard laboratory centrifuge, it is suitable for DNA extraction and amplification in low-resource areas, at production sites or sales locations.
Date issued
2013-10Department
Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringJournal
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2013)
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Transducers Research Foundations, Inc.
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Hoehl, Melanie, Michael Weißert, Nils Paust, Roland Zengerle, et al. "CENTRIFUGAL LABTUBE FOR FULLY AUTOMATED DNA EXTRACTION & LAMP AMPLIFICATION BASED ON AN INTEGRATED, LOW-COST HEATING SYSTEM. 'In the 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2013), Freiburg, Germany, 27-31 October 2013.
Version: Author's final manuscript
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1556-5890