Future Goals

CryoXtract’s Frozen Sample Aliquotting System is the most effective means to retrieve multiple aliquots from frozen biological samples. On the one hand, it prevents sample degradation and maintains integrity by keeping the sample frozen during aliquot extraction; unlike all other current methods, which require thawing. On the other, the automated system’s high-throughput capability delivers additional significant benefits, even when dealing with samples that are not susceptible to freeze-thaw damage, in the form of enhanced productivity and improved operating costs.

To manufacturers of automated equipment for biorepositories, the technology offers an opportunity to market a revolutionary automated and integrated sample handling system that delivers increased repository capacity without increasing storage expenses. It also offers significant savings in space and processing time.

To researchers at academic, government, and commercial laboratories the automated system would be a necessary instrument that enables them to extract aliquots from precious frozen samples without going through any freeze-thaw cycles; thus, preserving the integrity and future value of the specimens, increasing laboratory efficiency, and decreasing sample preparation costs. Specimen degradation due to freeze-thaw can cause laboratories to repeat expensive experiments in order to get more samples.

Not only will this technology reduce the cost of operating the repositories and improve the viability of specimens while eliminating the second freeze/thaw cycle associated with the current approaches, but it will increase the throughput in processing samples because it is automated. Use of the Frozen Sample Aliquoting System can reduce the time required for a 1,000 sample study from 6½ weeks to one week.