Highlights 2025 Life Sciences 44 – 45 Personalized therapy “One solution to the growing challenge of antibiotic resistance is personalized antibiotic therapy,” says Aleksandar Vacic, President and co-founder of Selux Diagnostics. “Today, patients usually receive a broad-spectrum antibiotic at the start of an infection. Whereas targeted treatment is only administered once the results of an antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) are available. This takes one to four days. With our new Selux platform, we can reduce this time to just a few hours.” The innovative precision diagnostics provides doctors with valuable information for quickly selecting the right antibiotic for a patient. TEC supports innovation Repeat accuracy and speed are crucial factors in automated and individualized ASTs. Festo TEC, Boston, Massachusetts, took on the challenge to find a suitable solution. The team of on-site experts supported the development of a precise pipetting system for liquids. “The Festo Technology Engineering Center played a key role in the development of the Selux platform,” explains Christopher Duchesneau, Industry Segment Sales Specialist, Life Science at Festo. “The Festo experts were heavily involved in the implementation of Selux-specific tests and the validation of Festo life science products. This led to the development of customized products and the modification of standard Festo products.” This is why the latest dispense heads VTOE and VTOI and valve control module VAEM were integrated in the innovative medical technology solution from Selux. The compact planar surface gantry EXCM-30 together with the rotary gripper module EHMD, which is ideal for gripping, rotating, and aligning small objects such as blood samples in laboratory automation, ensures the microplates are handled quickly and safely. Maximum functionality in the smallest installation space: the planar surface gantry EXCM-30 is perfect for use in laboratory processes such as the dosing application shown here. Fast and precise dosing thanks to the pressure-controlled dosing system of Festo. 86 tests in just a few hours With a capacity of 86 plates, the Selux platform is able to test 86 patient samples simultaneously. To increase the flexibility of the processes, the samples are picked up randomly. The expandable system can incorporate new antibiotics coming onto the market into the analysis process and can therefore be adapted to pharmaceutical changes. The high degree of automation reduces the workload of laboratory staff, who simply need to insert sample carriers into the analyzer. The Selux platform takes care of all further steps. > www.seluxdx.com The Selux Analyzer is the heart of the Selux NGP system and provides rapid phenotypic AST results in an average of 5.5 hours.
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