In Greek mythology, Apollo was the god of medicine, healing and light. Microchip Biotechnologies is building a family of products, called Apollo, which will give ‘sample-to-answer’ performance in many life science applications. This vision will lead to the creation of simple-to-use, fully automated, high-performance systems with reduced reagent costs and improved analytic efficiencies using only the tiniest amounts of sample. The Apollo platform will serve today’s laboratories while enabling emerging markets with compact, fully automated devices which can be brought into the field and closer to the samples themselves.