Hi, my name is Ella – your immunoassay problem solver.
Ella’s cartridges contain fully validated assays powered by R&D Systems antibodies to deliver fast, reproducible data with no manual steps. Advanced microfluidic circuitry performs every step of the assay process to help eliminate variability and minimise user error.
Customisable cartridges can assay up to 8 analytes simultaneously in less than 90 minutes and require only 25µL of sample. All assays are fully validated, highly sensitive, and feature up to 4 logs of dynamic range.
Discover the confidence and convenience Ella can bring to your lab.
The Simple Plex Technology
Ella Automated Immunoassay System
Key features:
- > 90 minutes run time
- > Reproducible – no manual steps after sample addition
- > Versatile – single or multi analyte assays (up to 8-plex)
- > No analyte cross-reactivity
- > Sub-picogram sensitivity
- > 4+ logs of dynamic range
- > Run 72, 32, or 16 sample cartridges
- > Low sample volume: 2- to 25ul
- > Validated Simple Plex assays or build-your-own assays
- > Built-in calibration curve
Simple Plex Technology
Ella does immunoassays in a microfluidic Simple Plex cartridges. It's like using a pre-kitted immunoassay, except everything's pre-loaded on the cartridge—even the calibration curve. All you need to do is add your sample and buffers and put the cartridge in Ella.
The sample runs through a microfluidic channel that binds your protein of interest. Next, Ella washes off unbound analyte and adds a detection reagent. Because each channel has three Glass Nano Reactors (GNRs) coated with a capture antibody, you get triplicate answers for each sample.
Results are then generated from the factory-calibrated standard curve that comes with every cartridge.
It's the same immunoassay you're used to, just without the errors that come with conventional ELISAs.
Simple Plex Assays
Single plex and multiplex assays available for human samples. Assays are also available for mouse and rat targets.
Typical workflow
All the assay steps on Ella are highly automated thanks to the microfluidic cartridge—everything is preloaded, even the calibration curve.
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