Microtiter plates were used for hemagglutination assays since the 60s or=20
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Hence the name microtiter plates. They replaced doing the assays in test=
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Jeff Frelinger
On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Anton Scott Goustin wrote:
> 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=20
> 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=20
> invented the ELISA. Perhaps she knows the answer. You can reach her at=
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> the LaJolla Cancer Research Foundation in California: =20
>eengvall at ljcrf.edu.>=20
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