covid-19

We are delighted to announce our participation in the Y-Combinator (YC) Winter 2021 batch. Y-Combinator is probably the world’s most famous start-up accelerator and arguably one of the best known institutions of Silicon Valley. Since 2005, it has been used to launch over 2000 companies including Airbnb, DoorDash, Stripe, GitLab, Reddit, Dropbox and Ginkgo Bioworks. The combined valuation of YC companies was over US$ 300...

Request Online-Demo Request Online-Demo Here we describe a possible design for a multiplexing RT-qPCR for detection of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which does not only allow us to determine a coronavirus infection, but also to distinguish the variant causing it. Currently, variants of SARS-CoV-2 are only detected via sequencing of the samples after positive RT-qPCR. As the sequencing is time and labor intensive, typically only...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a common molecular technique to create millions or even billions of copies of a certain fragment of DNA in vitro. Our DNA synthesizer, called Kilobaser, produces these small synthetic DNA fragments, which are necessary for every PCR....