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Apostle Viral RNA/DNA Isolation Automation System

 Apostle’s response and solution to help our community fight COVID-19 together.

Feature: High Quality, Low Cost, Fast, Safe

  • High quality: Equal or better results compared with market leading products.
  • Lower cost: Guaranteed 30% - 50% less cost than other products on market.
  • Faster: One button start; Run time is approximately 40 minutes per 96 samples.
  • Safer: Integrated with a UV light for unit interior disinfection.

Contributed to COVID-19 testing in over 15 million people by our clients.

What our community say

"An instance of sequential infection of an individual with, firstly, the Delta variant and secondly a Delta-sub-lineage has been identified. The individual was found positive for the AY.26 lineage 22 days after being found positive for the Delta [B.1.617.2] variant...Nucleic acid extractions were performed by Apostle MagTouch Nucleic Acid Extraction Automation Systems [Apostle Inc, San Jose, CA]. "
- An independent clinical study published in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease by Nevada State Public Health Laboratory
Apostle COVID-19 RNA Extraction System is a fast and reliable solution for SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA extraction. We look forward to continuing the collaboration with Apostle and providing high quality COVID-19 tests for our community.
- Harry Gao, MD, PhD, DABMG, FACMG, Lab Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Fulgent Genetics
With Apostle automation, my team and I have been able to develop a method to detect and quantify SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples, while also having the ability to sequence viral RNA from the wastewater samples. ...Apostle was able to quickly supply us with instruments, plates and reagents for a fraction of the price of the competitors. Apostle has been a great partner for us. Their technical support team programmed our MagTouch 2000 at no cost, and their team was supportive and accommodating every step of the way.
- Lauryn Massic, Association of Public Health Laboratories infectious disease fellow at the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory. (Read Interview)

Inclusion in US FDA IVD EUA - Molecular Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2



 

MagTouch Automated Nucleic Acid Isolation System & MiniGenomics Viral TotalNA Isolation Fast Kit

Highlighted Features

  • Extremely robust and reliable; sustained 7x24 heavy use for 2+ years in very busy clinical laboratory environment (as in the photo exhibit)
  • Cost-effective; guaranteed 30% or more savings than other products 
  • High-efficiency and high-throughput extraction
  • Small footprint on the desktop
  • Improved color touchscreen interface and one-button start
  • Removable transparent cover – convenient for automatic liquid transfer workstation 
  • Build-in UV light for sterilization
  • Programmable procedure
  • Novel magnetic field settings for high recovery of magnetic beads
  • Ten different mixing speeds
  • Vibration extent of the magnetic head automatically matches the reagent volume during mixing
  • Precise temperature control between ambient temperature -120 °C

Environmental Requirements

  • Surrounding temperature: 10℃ - 35℃
  • Humidity below 70% 
  • Atmosphere pressure range: 500 – 1060 hpa 
  • Voltage requirements: AC 100-240 V, 50Hz / 60Hz
  • Operation desk
  • Located in well-ventilated room 
  • Bearing weight beyond 50kg

Modules

    NumberModulesDescription of Functions
    1Plastic tip comb moduleMixing; transfer magnetic beads
    2Magnetic head moduleMagnetization of beads
    3Turntable moduleSwitch of plates
    4Thermal module （optionalTemperature control
    5Shield modulePrevent potential cross contamination
    6UV sterilization moduleSterilization 
    7Working lamp moduleIllumination

    Documentation

      • This links directs to an Application Note on the Apostle COVID-19 Viral RNA Extraction System, applied in the effective detection of SARS-CoV-2 in over 8 million clinical samples by our clients. Using Apostle system, limit of Detection (LoD) of the downstream detection system of our customer is documented at 3.6 NDU/uL published on the FDA website. The sensitivity and specificity is 99.9% and 99.9% at 3 copies/uL, respectively, published on our customer’s website.
    • Apostle-COVID-19-Viral-RNA-Isolation-System.pdf
      • This link directs to download the product brochure.
    • Apostle-MiniGenomics-Viral-Total-NA-Isolation-MagTouch-protocol.pdf
      • This link directs to download the system protocol.
    • Apostle-MagTouch-2000-manual.pdf
      • This link directs to download the user manual for Apostle MagTouch 1000 Nucleic Acids Isolation Automation System
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    All Publications
    A new clinical study, led by scientists from MD Anderson Cancer Center and published in Cancer Cell (journal impact factor = 50.3), shows that tumor and cfDNA methylation can be used to identify SCLC subtypes and might guide precision SCLC therapy. Apostle MiniMax cfDNA kit is one of the critical commercial assays listed in this article. Congratulations to this clinical research team. To date, the Apostle MiniMax technology has been used in 2 articles published in Nature Communications, 2 in Nature Medicine, 1 in Science Translational Medicine, 1 in PNAS, and over 60 scientific articles by over 60 international research and clinical teams in different journals.