QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System

Absolutely attainable chip-based digital PCR

Now, you can go beyond the limits of real-time PCR with the new Applied Biosystems^™ QuantStudio^™ 3D Digital PCR System. A simple and affordable platform, the QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System produces absolute quantification data with the precision and sensitivity you need for your more demanding applications. The QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System uses a sealed chip technology, providing a streamlined, reliable, and robust method for performing digital PCR. Just load and go.
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A new generation of PCR is here

The QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System is:

Simple—load and go, turn-key chip-based workflow
Affordable—less than 50% of the price of competing platforms
Absolute—concentration measurements in copies/μL without a standard curve

Watch a workflow video to see the simplicity of QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System.

Simple workflow limits hands-on steps and sample manipulation

The QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR Chip enables a simple and streamlined workflow. Unlike other methods that require multiple transfer steps and upfront sample digestion, the QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR Chip is simply loaded and sealed—ready for PCR and analysis. With the ability to thermal cycle up to 24 chips at one time and taking less than 30 seconds to read each chip, the QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System enables a simple, streamlined workflow to perform digital PCR.

QuantStudio 3D workflow

Watch a workflow video to see the simplicity of QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System.

Lab Genomics, Inc of Korea uses QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR system to ID low frequency mutations in FFPE samples.

Catholic University of Korea uses the dPCR to detect low frequency mutations implicated in prostate and lung cancer.

Affordable solution to enable digital PCR in any lab

Because the QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System is not based on expensive droplet flow technology, it is able to be priced significantly lower than other systems on the market. Compared to the closest digital PCR competitor, it would take at least 10 years of average use* to equal the savings achieved with the QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System. In addition, as the provider of over 8 million Applied Biosystems™ TaqMan® Assays, a staple of digital PCR, we can maximize your savings for the assays you need.

Learn about our specially-priced comprehensive package, designed to help you get started with digital PCR in your lab right away.

*Average use assumed to be 1000 samples run per year.

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Absolute quantification at your fingertips

Absolute quantification by digital PCR is made possible by thousands of individual reactions running in parallel. Manufactured from a silicon substrate and etched with 20,000 consistently sized nanoscale reaction wells, the Applied Biosystems™ QuantStudio™ 3D Digital PCR Chip enables more controlled sample loading and less reaction dropout than droplet-based approaches, ensuring higher precision for absolute quantification.

Digital PCR extends the performance of existing TaqMan Assays, enabling applications that benefit from higher sensitivity, precision, or absolute quantification. Such applications include rare mutation detection (otherwise known as looking for a needle in a haystack such as in cancer samples), virus and bacteria quantification and detection (getting an absolute count of pathogens detected), genetically-modified organism detection (detecting a GMO seed where in places it shouldn’t be), next-generation sequencing workflow optimization (accurately quantifying NGS libraries and validating sequencing results), and reference standard quantification (developing a reference for your real‐time experiment when it doesn’t exist).

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