Testing Antibodies in Blood

Video Transcript

"We are going to screen for all those unexpected antibodies. This is very similar to the AVR. This instrument is used as a strip. Each one of the donor?s samples will be put into one of these wells and then we use what's called a pool screening cells. On those cells, they have pooled together all these different antigens and proteins that we can develop antibodies to. All in one pool. We put that in a cell and add enhancing agents. It's incubated and spunned down and it will create the same image like this (either a button if it's negative or it won't create a button if it's positive. The donors samples are put into the instrument like so. They will be pulled into the instrument. The probes are going to deliver the pool cells and the enhancing agents. Both of these will be dispensed into one of these wells. The incubation is done now and we will do the reading. Doing about 250 of these samples takes about five hours."