Multi-Channel Platforms definition

Multi-Channel Platforms means plate systems with multiple microfabricated channels for electrophoresis and/or chromatography. The term “MegaBACE products” shall mean high throughput, multi-channel capillary electrophoresis analysis systems for nucleic acid sequencing, genotyping and fragment analysis as well as for protein and carbohydrate analysis. The term “Diagnostics” shall mean the testing or analysis of biological samples (whether human or otherwise), the results of which are provided to health care recipients and/or providers for use in the diagnosis of disease, assessing the predisposition to disease, determining genetic status, monitoring the progression of disease, determining efficacy of treatment of disease, clinical management of the health care recipients from which such samples are derived and/or performing research to discover and develop methods and technologies for any of the foregoing.