LABORATORY INNOVATION
Osmolality and beyond: delivering innovation for nearly 70 years
Building innovative solutions to common laboratory challenges has been Advanced Instruments’ mission since 1955, a time when electronic automation was just beginning to be applied to laboratory methods. Throughout its 70-year history, Advanced Instruments’ osmometers have helped global clinical laboratories revolutionise workflow efficiency on the chemistry bench. Over the last two decades, this mission has expanded to microbiology, haematology, and beyond.
In 1955, Bud Wiggin set out to bring advanced functionality to the clinical and dairy markets from his home’s basement office and first coined the term ‘osmometer’. The first products commercialised freezing point depression technology. Freezing point was a classical method for solute concentration studies in dairy testing.
Advanced Instruments helped establish the method with nephrologists, making it a staple of laboratory medicine. From there, the company has grown to be the market leader in osmolality testing, now a standard test in hospital laboratories around the world. Since the first Advanced Instruments’ osmometer, the company has committed to scrutinising clinical laboratory processes and collaborating with customers to understand the challenges that better technology and customised services can help laboratories overcome. This feedback loop is what inspires constant product development and product improvement.
Osmolality benefits Currently, Advanced Instruments’ Osmo1 Single-Sample Micro-Osmometer and OsmoPRO Multi-Sample Micro- Osmometer deliver the most user- friendly features demanded by hospital
laboratories to ensure they stay productive.
Mobo Laniyan, Laboratory Manager, Blood Sciences Biochemistry, at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is just one of many users in the NHS. He comments: “The staff love using the OsmoPRO because it is so easy
to use and allows them to plan ahead. Unlike our older equipment – where staff would have to load, then sit and wait, to complete one run after the other – the OsmoPRO allows them to ‘load and go’ and it completes a full batch by itself. “From my point of view the greatest satisfaction has been seen in our
The OsmoPRO Multi-Sample Micro-Osmometer delivers the most user-friendly features demanded by hospital laboratories to ensure they stay productive.
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