Doktorarbeit in Virologie

Electronic eLINE pipettes used for PhD Study on Virology

”eLINE was crucial in obtaining accurate and reproducible results, which revealed the differences in gene expression between the two cell types.”  

says Jaana Maria Jurvansuu, PhD
at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
related to a PhD degree in virology laboratory; studying effects of inactivated Adeno-associated virus 2 on cancer cells utilising eLINE 10ul (and 1000ul) electronic pipettor(s)
 
Jaana did her PhD degree in the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in a virology laboratory. She studied a virus called adeno-associated virus 2. When inactivated, this virus was shown by a study of our laboratory to kill specifically cancer cells. Jaana’s work was to uncover the molecular basis of this phenomenon, something which might be valuable for biomedical purposes in future.

 “An important part of my work was to compare the changes in gene expression between virus infected cancer cells which died and in virus infected normal cells which survived. The gene expression levels were quantified using real-time quantitative PCR. This method is extremely sensitive to pipetting errors and consistency is the most important factor for valid results”, says Jaana.

“The electronic pipettor (eLINE 0.2-10ul) was crucial in obtaining accurate and reproducible results, which revealed the differences in gene expression between the two cell types. Besides, pipetting with electronic pipettors is a delight for someone accustomed to mechanical ones.”