Mic and Myra Prove Flexible and Reliable in Regional Mobile Labs

Mic qpcr cycler and Myra liquid handler have been put through their paces in COVID-19-testing field trials in regional Western Australia and found to be noticeably robust, rapidly deployable and flexible. These results have been outlined in a recent paper, Development, deployment and in-field demonstration of mobile corona virus SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic acid amplification test, published by Paton, Marr, O’Keefe and Inglis.

In this paper, Paton et al set out to test an optimal open platform for mobile molecular diagnostics in Derby and Broome in north-western Australia, given that both towns are located more than 1,600km from centralised testing services. The choice was made to field test a Mic magnetic induction thermal cycler and Myra liquid handling robot from Bio Molecular Systems, using a duplex RT-PCR assay from Co-Diagnostics.