Stephan Noack, a bioprocess engineer at the Jülich Research Centre, discusses how automation is transforming microbial growth processes by significantly increasing throughput.
Ian Holland notes that while robotics in academia began to develop recently, the vast amounts of data required now necessitate the efficiency that automation brings to lab work.
Noack mentions that traditional setups involve extensive trial and error leading to failures, but automation's ability to handle such processes can minimize bottlenecks.
By implementing robotics and automation, researchers shifted from large agar plates to high-density wells, achieving throughput increases close to 100-fold according to Noack.
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