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History of Microtiter/Microplate

Anton Scott Goustin asg at CMB.BIOSCI.WAYNE.EDU
Thu Jun 1 10:23:06 EST 1995


In the 12 x 8 well (96-well) format?

On Thu, 1 Jun 1995 JAF at UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU wrote:

> Microtiter plates were used for hemagglutination assays since the 60s or=
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> Hence the name microtiter plates.  They replaced doing the assays in test=
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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 the=
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> > late 1970s in immunology labs for sure.  The originals were 6-well and=
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> > 12-well...perhaps at the beginning of monoclonal antibody technologies.=
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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 a=
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> > eengvall at ljcrf.edu.
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