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History of Microtiter/Microplate

JAF at UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU JAF at UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU
Thu Jun 1 10:24:29 EST 1995


yes in that format.  I used them in undergraduate labs aboyt 1966.
Jeff Frelinger


On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Anton Scott Goustin wrote:

> In the 12 x 8 well (96-well) format?
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> On Thu, 1 Jun 1995 JAF at UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU wrote:
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> > Microtiter plates were used for hemagglutination assays since the 60s o=
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> > Hence the name microtiter plates.  They replaced doing the assays in te=
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> > Jeff Frelinger
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> > On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Anton Scott Goustin wrote:
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> > > Must be before 1980 at least...the multicluster plate was in use in t=
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> > > late 1970s in immunology labs for sure.  The originals were 6-well an=
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> > > 12-well...perhaps at the beginning of monoclonal antibody technologie=
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> > > I do know that the =B5titer plate was around in 1980 when Eva Engvall=
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> > > invented the ELISA.  Perhaps she knows the answer.  You can reach her=
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> > > the LaJolla Cancer Research Foundation in California: =20
> > > eengvall at ljcrf.edu.
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