Fighting pandemics in the digital age
Amidst the early COVID-19 chaos — when most of us were still in denial about the virus — two visionaries at Imperial College London started developing a new kind of COVID-19 test. Fully automated, scalable to thousands of tests per day, and reagent agnostic, the test workflow was developed, validated, and rolled out by the U.K. National Health Service to test 1,000 patient samples per day in only 9 weeks. Here's how they did it - and why the driving principles behind biofoundries and the advanced capabilities of Riffyn Nexus and other "lab of the future" systems were critical to their success.
