Dr.RobotLabs DIY (recycleable) microwell plate / microarray slide

I test a lot of microarray slides and agarose coatings always work well (same stuff you use for DNA electrophoresis gels). So like when you cast DNA gels thought it would be cool to print a really small gel caster for surface coating.

Surprisingly you can make really consistent coatings with this trick and you can use the same set up to attach gaskets to create small wells.

This design is for a 16 pad (8 row x 2 column) set up.

Agarose is cool because you can mix it with different chemistries.

When you finish assay just rehydrate and scrap agarose off

But I haven't been able to get such good data using chemiluminescence, but fluorescence works great.

If you look at the pre and post washes of protein array you can see how well the agarose retains the spots.

Here's more data:
http://www.htsresources.com/recycleable_surfaces_for_bioassays.php