OpenCell rapidly scaled high throughput testing facilities across the UK to process up to 10,000 COVID-19 tests per day. OpenCell provides early stage biotech startups in London with affordable lab space — but right now, they’re targeting COVID-19. Ever since the novel coronavirus COVID-19 was detected in… Read More

Adam Ericsen researches HIV host-virus interactions using fully automated genotyping, microbial sequencing and immunological assays. Here’s how. Adam Ericsen is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of the Genomics Core lab at Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Ericsen’s research program focuses… Read More

Arianna Morosetti studies anthelmintic drug resistance at University of Calgary. To do that she runs a lot of PCRs — using an Opentrons OT-2 pipetting robot. Arianna Morosetti is a molecular biologist studying the drug resistance of parasitic nematode worms in the Gilleard Lab at… Read More

How Imperial College used BASIC and an Opentrons OT-2 to build an accurate, low-cost, automated DNA assembly platform for synthetic biology. Scientists at Imperial College London use BASIC and an Opentrons OT-2 liquid handling robot to automatically assemble DNA constructs for synthetic biology applications. To explore biology more deeply and… Read More

Cairo University created iGEM’s first all-Egyptian student team to tackle water desalination – with a little help from Opentrons. One of iGEM’s founding tenets is that successful experiments require a global lens. That’s why iGEM’s student teams are asked to use synthetic biology to better their… Read More

NYU’s iGEM team conceived of a more scalable way to create flavonoids – with a little help from Opentrons’ OT-2 pipetting robot. Out of the ten teams Opentrons sponsored at this year’s iGEM Giant Jamboree, we wanted to showcase the efforts of New York University’s iGEM team. Read More

Biology and engineering students from all over the world gathered at the iGEM Foundation competition in Boston to demonstrate the power and capabilities of synthetic biology on the world at large–with Opentrons’ help. On Halloween, the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation held its annual student… Read More

University of the Pacific professor John Livesey talked to us about how he uses the OT-2 pipetting robot for cancer drug development – and training future biologists. Dr. John Livesey has been a professor at the University of the Pacific in Sacramento, California, for 25… Read More

Dr. Xian Weng Jian creates automated cell-based assays at Cytera Cellworks — using an Opentrons OT-2 liquid handling robot. Cytera Cellworks makes automated devices to make the error-prone and labor-intensive aspects of cell culture like media replenishment, passaging, and imaging quicker as well as more sterile. We… Read More

Dr. Annabel Shang helps create antibody drugs at MilliporeSigma. To do that she runs ELISAs — using an Opentrons OT-2 pipetting robot. Dr. Annabel Shang is blazing new trails at MilliporeSigma, a company dedicated to making research and biotech production simpler, faster, and safer. The work involves intensive pipetting –… Read More