(iTers News)Life Technologies Corporation is a trailblazer to what’ trademarked as ‘Ion Torrent’ technology, which marries chemical technology and semiconductor CMOS chip fabrication in a single silicon die to roll out Ion Torrent semiconductor chip for DNA sequencing,

The bio-technology innovator announced that it will accelerate development of its Ion Torrent Semiconductor technology to expand its reach across a broad set of proteomic and antibody-based applications markets. Technologies R&D milestones.

Proteomic and antibody-based technologies are used prevalently across multiple addressable markets in research, applied sciences and clinical diagnostics.



Life Technologies anticipates potential initial applications in transplant diagnostics (human leukocyte antigen - HLA), microbiology, and food safety testing, but additional application areas may be explored internally or via partnership.

Antibody / antigen complexes and proteins can be combined with bead-based sample-preparation technologies used on Ion Torrent's Semiconductor Sequencing technologies. The sensitive signal detection available on the Ion Torrent semiconductor chip works by recognizing electrical and ionic changes through a sensor, and the currently available products are being used with nucleic acids.

"In disease areas like Transplant Diagnostics and Cancer, having the ability to analyze proteins and genes on the same system, in the same lab, brings convenience, better turnaround time and allows for democratization of critical information for better patient management," said Ronnie Andrews, president of Medical Sciences at Life Technologies.



Instead of using light as an intermediary to sequence DNA , Ion Torrent semiconductor chip translates chemical signals into a series of digital signals of ones and zeros, as CMOS image sensor chips convert photons into pixels.

The chip is also fabricated in the same way that myriad of N- and P—type transistors are being etched on a silicon wafer in a complimentary format, after which CMOS, or complimentary metal oxide semiconductor chip are called.

 

 

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