Thermo Fisher Scientific Amplitude Solution

Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced a highly automated, real-time PCR solution designed to analyse up to 6000 samples in a single day to meet increasing global demand for COVID-19 testing. The high-throughput system enables laboratories to double or even triple their testing capacity.

The Thermo Fisher Scientific Amplitude Solution is a molecular diagnostic testing system that leverages the company’s Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 7 Flex Real-time PCR instruments along with liquid handling products from Tecan. The modular solution delivers test results in a four-step process requiring minimal hands-on time, laboratory space and staffing resources.

The system utilises Thermo Fisher’s Applied Biosystems TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit — a fast, sensitive multiplex diagnostic test that contains the assays and controls needed for the qualitative detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2. It also includes instruments from Tecan’s Fluent Laboratory Workstation family.