Thread by @NewFormsResearc

(2011) #Roche launched the LightCycler Nano POC 🔬

Via white label with IT-IS who also licensed to @NovacytGroup (sold as q32 + q16)

2014 IT-IS sought legal damages against Roche for patent infringement

2020 @NovacytGroup bought IT-IS
#Novacyt #ALNOV

"Many research labs use 96-well instruments, but the average number of samples per run is often below the capacity of the instruments"

🤏 "should satisfy the needs of many PCR researchers by fitting well into their work environment"
Roche Marketing VP Fernandes-McAlear

#Novacyt

“The new LightCycler® Nano Instrument delivers proven high quality at an affordable price & expands our qPCR business into a new segment. Customers will love the smart design of the instrument & appreciate the high quality data they can produce with it.”

Gerd Haberhausen, Roche

“With the LightCycler® Nano Instrument, we now provide a very compact & innovative high performance PCR instrument under a worldwide exclusive agreement”
Gerd Haberhausen, Roche

"end of Roche global service and support for the LightCycler® Nano Instrument is 31 December 2020"

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Novacyt continuous improvement has seem them simplify q16/32 work flow with the addition of ProMATE's one pipette sample process

Not content, they launch Nova Prep to automate this process

https://twitter.com/gasman2020/status/1450833451226222599?t=hV-7gsIXjL34Rusy--lOMQ&s=19

Some say there's no demand for instrument to test between 4 & 96 samples

Some people have been wrong quite a bit recently, even been caught out lying. I'll trust the words of Roche's Vice President of Marketing, love those Marketing savyy folks
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