b'4 Ways to Speed Up Assay DevelopmentWHEN IT COMESto any kind of scientific testing, yester- One source for all your needs. We know how hard it is to days technology is not going to make it in todays industry.manage hundreds of different suppliers.Different lead times, Expectations are constantly increasing in terms of assay sen- waiting for responses about lot availability, warehousing items with sitivity, time-to-results, and ease of use.But keeping up withdifferent storage requirements, it all takes time and a dedicated the change when there are bottlenecks in reagent supply, laborsupply chain management team.Our master mix simplifies this shortage and increasing manufacturing costs, is not easy. challenge as you only have to deal with one manufacturer.We Agbio assay developers should not feel helpless. At Meridianmake our mixes at very large commercial scales under ISO13485, a Bioscience, we are focused on finding solutions that deliver,quality management system for medical devices, so we are accus-results faster.Our ready-to-use master mixes are optimizedtomed to delivering products with high quality.And with global for smooth integration in any platform or workflow in need ofsupply chains currently facing challenges, a one-stop shop like improved performance and cost efficiency. In fact, here is fourMeridian for assay mixes can save a considerable headache.ways that our master mixes can help: How is your organization saving time and money in its opera-Pre-optimized for plant. One of the biggest bottlenecks intions? If youre spending hours on assay development and supply new product development is assay optimization. Finding thechain management, maybe its time to look at a different option best components, determining the optimal ratios, fine-tuning theto optimize your resources. formulation, it all takes time.And when there are several param-eters to optimize for (e.g. sensitivity, specificity, shelf-life), R&D development can take months. Our master mixes are pre-opti-mized, so you dont need to spend your R&D time searching for the best chemistry for your assaywe have done all the work for you.Plant Inhibitor-Tolerant and no need of DNA extraction. Undoubtedly, the distinct feature of our mix is that it is uniquely designed for plants. It has been designed to perform under the toughest conditions, and as a result, we have created a mix that works with crude plant material.The formulation has such inhibitor-tolerant properties that the DNA extraction can be com-pletely skipped if needed.This reduces significantly the assay workflow and its associated time and cost but also reduces the potential for user error or cross-contamination Superior Performance. While optimizing our master mix, our goal was to create a formulation that not only simplifies the development of a plant assay but offers advantages in perfor-mance over other mixes.We created a formulation that is so sensitive amplifying from plant specimens that very low copies of DNA can be detected, enabling diseases to be identified earlier and triage to start sooner.FLORENT CHANG-PI-HINVICE PRESIDENT OF R&DLIFE SCIENCE, MERIDIAN BIOSCIENCEflorent.chang-pi-hin@meridianlifescience.commeridianbioscience.com/lifescience50/ SEEDWORLD.COMDECEMBER 2022'