NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (GenomeWeb News) - The Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria in Madrid, Spain, will use Tecan's Freedom EVO* series of robotic workstations in its sheep research, Tecan said today.
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Spain's reference laboratory for the scrapie genotyping in sheep will use the workstations to develop an automated, high throughput application to identify at-risk animals.
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"New legislation requires all member states of the EU to establish a breeding program to improve scrapie resistance in sheep, and genotyping is a useful way to select animals for this," said Stephan Sidler, the head of the laboratory, in a statement.
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Using Tecan's equipment will help the lab achieve "95 percent of results within two weeks," according to Sidler.