BioNoBis (Guyancourt, France) and JETA Molecular (Utrecht, The Netherlands) announce that JETA’s flagship product, the QTRACE® Analysis System for cell-free DNA and chimerism analysis by quantitative PCR (qPCR), has been selected as the chimerism monitoring solution of choice by the Établissement Français du Sang (EFS – the French National Blood Service). For the second time in a row, BioNoBis won a four-year, competitive tender to supply JETA’s reagents and software.

The new QIAcuity Digital PCR System by QIAGEN was installed at JETA Molecular on April 14, 2021. JETA Molecular will perform various tests using the instrument, including accurate quantification of alleles present between 0.1-0.01% or chimerism quantification using all 5 color channels (green, yellow, orange, red and crimson).

After being rescheduled due to the covid-19 pandemic, EFI 2021 will take place fully virtually from Wednesday 21st April to Friday 23rd April 2021.

JETA Molecular will participate at the meeting and will set up a virtual booth. We will available for a chat on every day of the event during the break times. Feel free to drop by!

Heavy snowfall and frost have hit the Netherlands hard, leading to traffic disruption in the whole country. Fortunately, we were not caught unprepared ❄❄❄

With the aim to develop a robust and sensitive system for genotyping of DNA samples using the increasingly popular digital PCR (dPCR) method, we have recently successfully employed a multiplex approach to combine multiple targets in one dPCR reaction.

Results of our analysis will be presented at the virtual EFI 2021 meeting on April 21-23, 2021:

Zamostna B., Mak C., Jiroutek P. and Bost D. (2021): Amplitude multiplexed, droplet digital PCR approach for accurate genotyping of DNA samples prior to chimerism analysis