High Throughput Screening
High Throughput Screening (HTS) is an automated workhorse in the race to develop new medications. This robotic technology (such as the robotic arm, left) enables scientists to simultaneously test the biological effects of thousands of different compounds. Minuscule amounts of these potential drug compounds are mixed with their biological targets in hundreds of tiny wells on microplates (red plate, centre). The HTS lab at NRC has a library of more than 120,000 compounds, and can test up to 25,000 a day. The lab supports NRC researchers and those from companies and universities. |
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