Rapid DNA
The fully automated generation of a DNA ID in less than two hours.
The global leader in Rapid DNA
Currently deployed in 25+ countries around the world
The ANDE system is revolutionary with respect to its time to actionable result, ruggedization, complete end-to-end functionality, cost-effectiveness, and ease of use (so easy that a technical operator is not required).
In 2016, ANDE became the first Rapid DNA system to receive regulatory approval from the FBI.
How it Works
Simplicity for the user.
Sophisticated system with 190+ patents.
Our History
Based on over two decades of pioneering research and development, ANDE was founded just outside of Boston, MA in 2004 by Dr. Richard Selden. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees at Harvard and was the first person to receive a PhD from Harvard’s Department of Genetics.
Dr. Selden’s vision was to use DNA to improve the safety of our communities: to dramatically decrease the incidence of sexual assault, to identify criminals and exonerate the innocent, to prevent terrorism, to prevent human trafficking, and to reunite families.
He reasoned that conventional laboratory DNA identification was too slow and labor-intensive and had insufficient capacity to truly protect the population. Backlogs of DNA evidence delay and often reduce the likelihood of arresting criminals, obtaining justice for victims, and exonerating the innocent.
To address this critical unmet need, Dr. Selden created the concept and field of “Rapid DNA”.
Supported in part by the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI, Dr. Selden assembled a world-class team of scientists and engineers that designed and built the ANDE system—an instrument and consumable Chip that automatically performed fully-automated DNA processing and data analysis on forensic (and later fuel, clinical, and other) samples.
The Company is committed to expanding our technologies and product offerings and to bring them across the US and world to make the world a better place. Our technical and commercial teams are inexorably driven to transform our founding vision into a reality: to change the world by using Rapid DNA technology to help people.
