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LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES
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Ubiquitome’s Liberty16 Attracts Swiss Giant
Swiss giant DKSH signs agreement to market Ubiquitome's mobile, battery powered, PCR COVID-19 fast tester, Liberty16, in the Asia-Pacific market as manufacturing is ramped up with NZ$578,000 backing from the NZ government. DKSH’s Singapore-based Business Unit Technology, will provide marketing and sales, and distribution and logistics as well as after-sales services for the Liberty16. Read more. 
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Ubiquitome targets testing travellers for COVID-19
Ubiquitome is receiving just over half a million dollars in Government funding to help with increasing the manufacturing capacity of its Liberty16 rapid COVID-19 testing device. The mobile device would be ideal for use in places like airports, pre-screening international travellers once borders reopen. Passengers could be tested and receive results before their flight, indicating whether they should travel or not. Read more. 
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A mobile real-time PCR device for robust detection of Zaire ebolavirusComparable performance by the Freedom4, a mobile real-time PCR device, to the QuantStudioDx (Life Technologies) was demonstrated in these experiments. It is concluded that the Freedom4 gives the same performance and sensitivity as in laboratory instruments.
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APPLICATIONS
Click on each application to see how what mobile real time PCR can enable
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Clinical
"Early diagnosis of HIV among infants born to HIV-positive mothers is a critical component of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV." Joseph Mwangi Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi |
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Animal Health
"By having a rapid on site (poultry farm and / or slaughterhouse) test available, it allows rapid discriminate between Campylobacter contaminated flocks and non-contaminated high quality flocks." Jos van der Vossen TNO |
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Food
"Compared to cumbersome and costlier ELISA method, the PCR technique is simple and allows us to estimate the quantitative levels of the IYSV nucleoprotein (N) gene transcripts in infected plants." Diwaker Tripathi Washington State University |
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Environment
“Currently we have boat days where we bring back whole water to shore and use the microscope to assess whether our bug of interest is there or not." Holly Bowers Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
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Conservation
"At the moment, it is virtually impossible to get samples and swabs out of Latin America as their biosecurity laws have tightened up immensely. This means the need for testing abilities on the ground is paramount." Robert Puschendorf School of Biological Sciences, Plymouth University |
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Forensics
"The ability to perform real-time PCR at crime scenes for the detection and identification of body fluids would be a significant advantage in crime scene investigations." Rachel Fleming Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd |
PERFORMANCE
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The Liberty16 has been designed to meet or exceed the performance of laboratory based real time PCR platforms.
“All established assays were shown to be transferable and gave comprehensible results .” - The Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) |
Liberty16 - repeatability of K.pneumoniae extracted and amplified from whole blood (n=8, Cq mean = 21.1, Cq std dev = 0.3)
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SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE LIBERTY16
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| Block Format | 16 wells |
| Thermal system | Peltier-based system |
| Consumables | Industry standard 8 strip PCR tube and caps |
| Sample volume | 10μl to 40μl |
| Average ramp rate | 2.3°C/sec |
| Ambient operation | 10°C – 40°C |
| Calibrated dyes | SYBR Green, FAM |
| Data collection | Data collected for all wells |
| Battery | Internal - rechargeable lithium ion |
| Real-Time PCR run time (40 cycles) | As little at 20mins |
| DIMENSIONS | |
| Outside dimensions | Length closed: 21.2 cm (8.35 inches) Width: 11 cm (4.33 inches) Height: 11.5 cm (4.53 inches) |
| Weight | 3.2 kg (7.05 lb) |
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