Richard J Holmes, Philip Summersgil, Timothy Ryan, Bernard J Treves Brown, Amal Mockbil, Bruce D Grieve, Peter R Fielden
This article describes work into a prototype system for the assay of amylase, using microfludic technologies. The new system has a significantly shorter cycle time than the current laboratory methods, which generally use microtitre plates, yet is capable of generating significantly superior results. As such, we have shown that sensitivity is enhanced by a factor of 10 in the standard assay trials, and by a factor of 2 in the real-sample lab trials. In both assays, the use of a microreactor system reduced the reaction time by a factor of 6...
August 2009: Journal of Food Science