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"A US research collaboration has successfully adapted an ArrayIt Spotbot, usually used to monitor protein activity, to print bacteria. In doing so, the researchers have delivered an experimental platform for testing computational models of communal microbial behaviour on unprecedented small scales (Biomed. Phys. Eng. Express 4 055010)...

“...For my work in developing a diagnostic assay to detect Lyme disease, the robotic pin spotter (Spotbot) is useful for making highly multiplexed protein microarrays on different surfaces,” says Eunice Chou, a PhD student working under Nathaniel Cady at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. “Here, I am using a gold-coated silicon chip, which I spot with various proteins present on the surface of Lyme disease bacteria.”

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