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The recent developments in molecular biology and robotics have provided the impetus for such technology. However, more recently the industry has been considering 384 and even 1,536 microwell plates. The advances in robotics allow assays to be fully automated and run continually day and night with minimal operator intervention. Molecular biology has provided the means to clone human receptors in a variety of cells and express different enzymes in model systems. Other detection systems use radioactive ligands, bioactivated fluorescent markers or fluorescent quenching approaches in which the interaction with the test compound causes a reduction in the fluorescence of a plate bound enzyme/receptor-conjugate. Novel, rapid methods of detecting both drug- ligand interations and receptor/enzyme activation are continually being developed in order to provide more rapid and sensitive detection systems. 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