Laboratory Automation

Company Announcements

Process Analysis and Automation and Matrical announced a strategic partnership.

Tecan and innovates are jointly marketing their respective Freedom EVO cell culture workstations and Cellavista cell detection devices.

Tecan expanded its collaboration with pION to include solutions for drug permeability and solubility screening.

MDS Analytical Technologies’ SpectraMax L microplate luminometers received Dual-Luciferase Reporter Assay certification from Promega.

Agilent promoted Nitin Sood, general manager of the Electrophoresis Business in Waldbronn, Germany, to general manager of Automated Solutions in June.

Agilent built a $1.7 million BioCel Automation genotyping system for characterizing biological pathogens. Developed with Los Alamos National Laboratory and UCLA, it will be deployed at UCLA’s new Global Bio Lab.

Hudson Control Group changed its named to Hudson Robotics, effective June 1.

Bio-Tek Instruments appointed Millennium Science as its distributor for New Zealand.

Labcyte named three new exclusive distributors: Chayon Laboratories for Korea, Bio Laboratories for Singapore, and Tekon for China and Taiwan.

Product Introductions

TTP LabTech announced high-throughput platform solutions for the study of cytotoxicity, combining its Acumen eX3 microplate cytometer with Invitrogen reagents.

Promega released the GloMax-Multi+ Detection System, which can measure luminescent and fluorescent chemistries from a single sample well.

Hamilton Robotics automated Promega’s CellTiter-Glo luminescent cell viability assay on the MICROLAB STAR liquid handling workstation.

Hamilton Robotics and Promega introduced a protocol for the automation of the Promega Wizard SV 96 Plasmid DNA Purification System.

Hamilton Robotics released the MICROLAB NIMBUS Vacuum System for automated solid phase extraction.

Biochrom introduced the Zenyth 200 scanning microplate reader with built-in UV/Vis spectrophotometer, available in stand-alone and PC-controlled versions.

BioTek Instruments introduced the Elx405 Magnetic Bead Washer for rapid separation of micrometer- and nanometer-scale magnetic beads in microplate format.

Bio-Tek launched the Epoch Multi-Volume Spectrophotometer System for monochromator-based absorbance measurements in volumes as low as 2 µL. It features the Take3 Multi-Volume Plate and a 200–999 nm range.

Caliper Life Sciences launched the Staccato Proteomic Workstation, which integrates the Sciclone ALH 3000, Twister II, LabChip GXII and accessories.

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