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Product: FreezerPro system RFID
Applications: Labeling frozen samples
Features: RURO Inc. introduces a radio-frequency identification (RFID) component for its FreezerPro frozen sample management system. The system creates transparent frozen sample storage with always up-to-date mapping and flexible searching, ensures good sample preservation because samples never leave freezers unless they are used, and facilitates access control management and storage audits. Modern RFID technology is miniaturized and inexpensive. It is applied to storage boxes and cryovials through self-adhesive cryo-safe labels that combine barcode and radio tags for maximum safety and redundancy.
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Disposable DialysisProduct: Tube-a-Lyzer system
Applications: Membrane separations
Features: The Tube-a-Lyzer ready-to-use separation device combines convenience and disposability with the efficiency of dynamic dialysis to increase mass transfer and reduce dialysis times from 1–2 days to 4–12 hours. This self-contained device incorporates semipermeable membrane tubing that separates its sample chamber from the surrounding flow-through buffer chamber. The dry, biotech-grade cellulose ester (CE) membrane tubing comes in six MW cutoffs, and the sample chamber comes in two volume sizes.
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Build Organs Cell by CellProduct: 3D Bio-Printer system
Applications: Manufacturing human tissue and organs
Features: Organovo will supply Invetech's world's-first product-model three-dimensional “bio-printer” to research institutions investigating human tissue repair and organ replacement. These units provide for the first time a flexible technology platform for organizations working on different types of tissue construction and organ replacement. The systems include an intuitive software interface that allows engineers to model of a tissue construct before the printer begins physical construction of the organs cell-by-cell using automated, laser-calibrated print heads.
Contact Invetech www.invetech.com.au.
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Online MeasurementProduct: #CITSens Bio sensors
Applications: PAT measurement for disposable bioreactors
Features: A #CITSens Bio sensor enables real-time analysis of glucose, glutamate, and lactate by measuring online and in situ directly in a disposable bioreactor. These systems help ensure long-term stability and sterile conditions of a culture while increasing efficiencies in process optimization. They are suitable for three-dimensional cell cultures and development of new cell lines as well as cultures of limited volumes. Each sensor is a screen-printed electrode that can be used with any standard disposable bioreactor.
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Nanoscale Liquid HandlingProduct: ProtoCOL 2 system
Applications: Miniaturized assays
Features: Agilent and V&P Scientific provide custom Pintool heads for Agilent Automation Solutions liquid handlers. Pintool heads enable users to convert 96- or 384-well pipetting systems or plate handlers into Pintool workstations that deliver 3 nL to 5 µL using 96-, 384-, or 1,536-pin tools. These heads use the surface tension of pins instead of aspirating through tips to deliver precise nanoliter amounts for multiplexing assays. They transfer 3,000–5,000 nL of liquid to any position on an instrument deck.
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Genetic AnalysisProduct: IFC Controller MX system
Applications: Drug discovery, cell line development, personalized medicine
Features: The Fluidigm BioMark self-contained system is designed to automatically prime and load 48.48 Dynamic Array and 12.765 Digital Array integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs) one at a time on a BioMark Real-Time PCR system. The compact, fully integrated system has an internal computer, touch-screen control, and internal air source capable of setting up 2,304 reactions within minutes. It is designed for laboratories to undertake high-throughput gene expression, genotyping, and real-time/digital PCR experiments economically.
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O2 SensorsProduct: PnPro6800 oxygen sensors
Application: Inertization of gasses in vaccine production
Features: During vaccine production processes, certain compounds are deteriorated in the presence of oxygen. So measurement and control of dissolved and gaseous oxygen are critical to optimize the gas inertization phase. To help vaccine manufacturers meet that need, Mettler Toledo combines its InPro6800 dissolved- and gaseous-oxygen sensors with its M300 two-channel multiparameter transmitter. The resulting system measures gaseous and dissolved oxygen and features sensor stability and low detection limits.
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