If so, you might be interested in our development of such future devices.
We are a university group and think about starting a company in future. Don´t worry, this is not an advertising or so, I do not want to sell you anything.
We would just like to cordially invite you to take part in a very short poll to get very first impressions of the academics´ and other professionals´ needs.
Please answer six short questions regarding the academic and the pharmaceutical version we have in mind. This takes just five minutes of your time per poll.
For you convenience, you can use the following two survey links:
For the ACADEMIC system (LOW throughput, SEMI-AUTOMATED):
https://de.surveymonkey.com/s/GFZMQQD
For the PHARMACEUTICAL system (HIGHER throughput, FULLY AUTOMATED):
https://de.surveymonkey.com/s/BZ8298C
Let´s shape the future of patch clamp analysis together! You are free to leave your personal data, if you would like to test our prototypes in future (2-3 years)! You can visit our university project site on the following website link:
http://www.poregenic.com
Hi Gabriele,
the mentioned nanion products do not allow for the analysis of cellular networks. This product family and ALL other APC systems availbale were developed and optimized for cells in suspension, cells freshly detached from culture flasks or cells from thawn vials. These APCs cannot analyze cultured cellular networks and were not built for that issue. Let me know if that´s not right.
Don´t get me wrong, nanion and the other APC producers did a great job with their APC development. Chapeau! The devices are great if you need higher troughput. I guess the new nanion 384-channel machine will have a good response in the market. Congrats to nanion!
But if you need network data or a higher organisation grade like in a cell network (some ion channels are only expressed when the cells are attached to a substrate or to other cells...) or in a brain slice, you are limited to manual patch clamp. And we all now that using a manual rig does not allow for higher throughput (5-20 data points per day if you are very experienced). Hence, we believe (and know from our potential customers already) that our future systems are complementary to conventional APCs. Further, our system will drastically increase the parallel number of patched cells, up to 16 at once with one chip! If we get that done: world record! I am sure that the information of the cell-cell-communication analyzed with our systems will be of very high value in future.
By the way, Prof. Markram´s 1 billion € project uses a 12-channel setup (http://www.2045.com/news/31235.html). The rig can be seen in the last figure in this article. The parallel patch clamp of neurons is an important tool for his research.
Well, with our short survey we would like to know the point of view of scientists regarding our technology to define our product development when we start our company in future.
For further information, please contact me under [email protected]
Best regards, Philipp
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