Nestegg Biotech B.V.

Most laboratories conduct thousands of these test per year and are currently limited by how many
of them they can perform. Researchers either perform them by hand and follow a strict schedule of
timed steps or they use a robotic system that is large and complex. The robotic systems generally
require several machines and use robotics to move the test plate around to the different machines.
Others do everything in one machine but are very large, expensive, and can only handle a single
plate at a time. There are also several smaller systems but for them to work researchers must use
custom plates from that manufacturer and they don’t work with any of the industry standard base
products. Most of these devices can’t be used by any larger institutions that stick to following
standard procedures with standard base products. These devices can only be used by small labs and
single researchers doing independent work.
Most research is built around simple task such as adding or removing fluids, gases, and test samples
while conducting a test (assay). The medical and pharmaceutical industry use standardized test
containers (microplates) for most of their work. Like a recipe one would follow in the kitchen,
researchers have recipes for conducting standardized test. These recipes require a series of carefully
timed steps where a test container (microplate) is used to create a reaction. (microplates) have a series of holes (wells) in them so that a researcher has multiple samples on the
same test plate. Being able to work with these existing microplates and then being able to automate
the standard test packages is what this market is currently missing.