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New Purity Levels for Disposable Tips
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Improved Multichannel Verification System
Artel has unveiled several significant enhancements to the MVS®
(Multichannel Verification System),
that provide additional capabilities for under- standing the performance of automated liquid handlers.
The Artel MVS now generates measurements traceable to national and international standards of volumes dispensed to each well in a 384-well plate. Based on ratiometric photometry, which measures light absorption by two specially formulated dyes to verify delivered volumes, the Artel MVS is well-known for its effectiveness and has become the industry standard for liquid handling quality assurance. Standardisation, improved data management, and speed are at the core of the latest MVS enhancements. With the MVS update, users of 96- or 384-well plates will be able to compare liquid handler performance from site-to- site and from instrument-to-instrument.
Tecan is continually expanding and updating its range of consumables to increase the flexibility of its liquid handling systems, and has recently introduced ‘Tecan Pure’ and ‘Tecan Sterile’ purity levels for its MCA96 disposable tips.
Tecan Pure tips are certified free of human DNA, RNase, DNase and PCR inhibitors, making them suitable for genomics research and forensics use. Tecan Sterile disposable tips offer the same high purity standards, with the additional benefits of being sterile and free from pyrogens/endotoxins, and are ideally suited to cell biology, microbiology and cell-based studies.
In addition, nested tips are now available in Tecan Sterile purity, to offer even higher throughput and increased walkaway time for these applications.
Wide bore tips are also now available for the MultiChannel Arm™ 96. The wider orifice of these tips decreases flow resistance and the risk of blockage, as well as minimising shearing and fragmentation for delicate samples.
These tips are available in both Tecan Pure and Tecan Sterile purity levels, and are ideal for applications such as pipetting of fragile cell suspensions or genomic DNA, handling of viscous fluids and transfer of suspensions containing bulky material.
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For easier data management, the Artel MVS can now evaluate 16- and 24-channel pipettors, as well as pipettors with 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 96, and 384 channels. In addition, users of 8-channel dispensers can now employ the Artel MVS to perform accurate volume readings with additional dispense pattern options, so that their verification processes mimic actual operations. Busy laboratories will also benefit from the increased speed of the Artel MVS without sacrificing accuracy and precision.
Now equipped with an 8-channel plate reader, the Artel MVS can read a 384-well microtiter plate four times faster than before, in just one minute. The latest enhancements to the Artel MVS also include changes to the system’s calibrator plate for more robust calibration of the MVS.
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Newly Designed 21-Model Water Bath Range
Grant Instruments has unveiled a newly designed, precision engineered, 21-model range of high quality, competitively priced unstirred, shaking and boiling water baths - the Aqua Plus series.
The Aqua Plus series is marketed in four distinct families - SUB Aqua Plus digital unstirred baths, JB Aqua Plus analogue unstirred baths, GLS
Aqua Plus series linear shaking baths and SBB Aqua Plus series boiling baths. The new models are unbeatable for everyday use, offer exceptional value-for-money, and come with Grant's renowned high quality and reliability built-in.
Boasting new usability features such as drain taps, temperature presets, front panel lockout, countdown timers and non-drip polycarbonate lids and bases, the new, easy-to-use, robust and reliable baths are designed to meet the ever changing needs of laboratories worldwide, including life sciences and educational establishments.
Like all Grant products, the new water baths are built to last. They meet CE and CSA standards (Grant has its own CSA accredited test facility). The baths are manufactured in Grant's UK production facility, using only the highest quality materials and come with a 3-year warranty as standard.
Ludo Chapman, Managing Director of Grant Instruments, said: "We have listened to our global customers and distributors, and we have managed - despite the current economic downturn - to design a new, feature- rich range of precision engineered water baths without compromising the great quality, service and support and competitive price for which we are renowned."
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