"Advalytix’ AmpliGrid technology is playing a key role in enabling researchers to discover how just a single cell can lay a huge role in complex biological systems."

"Tumor cells escape. In fact, scientists learned long ago — as early as 1869 — that cancer cells can end up in the blood. By the mid-1950s, some researchers thought that these so-called circulating tumor cells (CTCs) might help clinicians catch cancer earlier or measure the efficacy of a treatment."

"The analysis of copy numbers of genetic sequences is of fundamental importance in biology and medicine, and Digital Counting (DigC) is a new method to determine copy numbers at the single-cell level. Researchers at Olympus’ Advalytix division have applied DigC to detect Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) from single human fibroblasts."

"Despite general awareness of the significance of microplate mixing, it is still a relatively low priority in most laboratories. Microplate mixing has largely been ignored as a serious problem, although potentially it could undermine the generation of meaningful data."