Chip technology
The term chip lab (lab-on-a-chip) is comprehensive and describes a miniaturised arrangement for the automation of complete, analytical process chains by means of microfluidic functionality on a single chip.
The IGL laboratory uses this very modern chip technology in complex apparatuses that employ electrochemical and optical measurement principles, but also partly piezoelectric, fluorescence and chemiluminescence-based biosensors. Especially in the field of DNA adduct measurement as well as in the measurement of intracellular toxins in the context of iEC (intracellular electrical capacity) we use this state-of-the-art technology and combine it with capillary electrophoresis.
As a result, we get an extremely fast, highly accurate and cost-effective picture of epigenetic changes. We are currently the only laboratory with this sophisticated technique in epigenetic, clinical diagnostics and epigenetics research.