• A no-compromise solution for easier and more sensitive electrophoresis, combining power and convenience in a single high-capability instrument.
• Offering plug-and-play simplicity, flexible throughput and low operating costs.
• Integrates with the QIAsphere remote-connectivity system to help increase lab productivity without increasing lab time.

Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN today announced the launch of QIAxcel Connect, a high-speed, high-resolution and high-sensitivity nucleic acid analysis capillary electrophoresis (CE) instrument.

Compared to other CE products on the market, QIAxcel Connect offers greater convenience due to its simple set-up, greater flexibility and low running costs. It provides high analytical power, with many applications addressed.

Until now, choosing a CE instrument has meant accepting a compromise between convenience, analytical capability and running costs. QIAxcel Connect provides labs with a powerful new all-in-one solution that combines ease of use, high capability, flexible throughput and economy in a single CE instrument.

“QIAxcel Connect combines convenience and power in one instrument,” said Thomas Schweins, Senior Vice President and Head of QIAGEN’s Life Sciences Business Area. “With this launch, we further strengthen QIAGEN’s automation portfolio of high-quality products that help researchers publish their insights faster and with greater confidence.”

The enhanced platform utilizes ready-to-use gel cartridges capable of processing up to 96 samples per run and hundreds of samples before re-set up, minimizing manual intervention and reducing gel-preparation time.

The fully automated design allows for simple, flexible, and cost-effective operation while delivering maximum insight into sample quality or fragment sizes, with accurate results even at low concentration levels of DNA or RNA.

QIAxcel Connect is complemented by a wide kit portfolio with tailored capabilities to assess samples such as purified RNA, NGS libraries, cfDNA, or PCR products within minutes, at a low cost per sample.

The cartridges of these kits can be simply switched, allowing minimal handling time and offering an efficient solution for NGS Core labs and other research facilities.

By the end of the second quarter 2022, high-sensitivity kits for DNA and RNA analysis will also be available for convenient sizing and quantification in low-concentration and scarce samples.

In addition to offering high-sensitivity capabilities, QIAxcel Connect also integrates with QIAsphere, a hardware-and-app system that lets users manage their instruments and receive real-time status reports even from outside the lab, thus marking another step forward in laboratory automation.

QIAsphere connectivity is also available for the syndromic testing instrument QIAstat-Dx, as well as the nucleic acid purification instruments QIAcube Connect and EZ2 Connect.

QIAxcel Connect stands in the middle of the complete QIAGEN automation workflow that includes QIAcube Connect, EZ2 Connect, QIAcube HT, or QIAsymphony for sample purification, and the QIAcuity system for digital PCR.

To learn more about QIAxcel Connect, visit http://www.qiagen.com/qiaxcel-connect.

About QIAGEN 

QIAGEN N.V., a Netherlands-based holding company, is the leading global provider of Sample to Insight solutions that enable customers to gain valuable molecular insights from samples containing the building blocks of life. Our sample technologies isolate and process DNA, RNA and proteins from blood, tissue and other materials. Assay technologies make these biomolecules visible and ready for analysis. Bioinformatics software and knowledge bases interpret data to report relevant, actionable insights. Automation solutions tie these together in seamless and cost-effective workflows. QIAGEN provides solutions to more than 500,000 customers around the world in Molecular Diagnostics (human healthcare), Applied Testing (primarily forensics), Pharma (pharma and biotech companies) and Academia (life sciences research). As of March 31, 2022, QIAGEN employed more than 6,000 people in over 35 locations worldwide. Further information can be found at http://www.qiagen.com.

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