DPX Technologies has developed a novel, patentpending MicroPorous Xtraction (MPX) device and patentpending DNA isolation method that is fully automated. The DPX workflow does not require magnets or beads, therefore no magnetic capture incubation steps allows the DNA isolation process to be faster, taking less than 15 minutes from lysate to purified DNA for 96 samples. The automated method uses a high throughput vacuum process that provides rapid binding and wash steps, and allows for elution using the pipetting head of the robotic liquid handler to prevent cross-contamination and provide a very robust method.