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Eveia’s technology’s significant advantage since it is based on homogeneous immunoassays. The benefit of using a homogeneous assay solution can be explained easily by solution-phase kinetics. The time needed for the completion of a binding reaction between a low-abundance protein and its corresponding antibody is proportional to 1 /(ka Ab + kd), where ka is the association rate, Ab is the antibody concentration, and kd the dissociation rate. In most cases, this time is minutes or less, and can be decreased by increasing the antibody concentration. As a solution-based assay, EVEIA has the advantage of fast kinetics and can be performed with excellent sensitivity in minutes.Most commercially available immunoassays are surface-based (heterogeneous) and require significantly longer incubation times of several hours or overnight.
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