Hospitals and clinical laboratories with high sample volumes will benefit the most from the fast speed of the chemistry system. The BS-2000 modular system features a high throughput range from 2,000 photometric tests per hour for a single module to up to 4,400 tests per hour for dual modules with electrolyte tests. A minimum reaction volume of just 80μL reduces the cost per test, and its intuitive software makes operating the system easy and convenient. Clot detection, crash protection and bubble detection ensure more accurate measurement for all the specimens. A line of original reagents, calibrators with metrological traceability and controls complete the package, which offers customers a versatile solution with high efficiency, automation and scalability. This model will integrate easily with future products from this company.
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Labelling tubes and tube-caps can be laborious, but it’s something that cannot be avoided. These laser printable labels will make a much less time consuming business. The CILS-9100 Cap & Tube label sets come in multiple label shapes and sizes on a single roll/A4 sheet allowing variable data printing (batch numbers, barcodes etc) ‘in-lab, on demand’ straight from standard laser or thermal transfer printer. Made to any cap and tube size and shape combination, the labels are available colour- coded for immediate sample recognition. This label range provides immediate high-strength bonding to all labware during cryogenic freezer storage (−196°C) and multi-freeze thaw cycles.
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The Ani Labsystems/Tecan Neonatal platform is a high throughput system intended for quantitative analysis of neonatal screening samples on 96-well microplates. The instrument is fully automated – all the operator has to do is to place the plates containing the dried blood spot samples on the instrument. Processing steps include: dispensing of reagents, elution of samples, incubation, removing of disks, washing, transfer of liquid samples, measuring, calculation of results and data reporting. Apart from the reagents, no extra consumables (e.g. pipette tips) are needed, which keeps running costs to a minimum. The unique liquid handling system allows analysis of both the ELISAbased assays as well as the enzymatic assays on the same platform. The highly sensitive fluorimetric detection guarantees excellent performance and a large linear range. The neonatal screens available include PKU, TSH, 17-OHP, Toxo-IgM, GAL, G6PD, (IRT to be released soon).
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Successful chromatographic analysis of plasma samples requires the removal of both proteins and phospholipids, which can clog HPLC/UHPLC columns. Phospholipids can also cause ion suppression and, over time, will reduce sensitivity due to a build-up on the mass spec source. For the fast clean-up of plasma samples in pharmaceutical and clinical research laboratories, Phree phospholipid removal plates remove both proteins and phospholipids and deliver the prepared plasma to a collection plate in one step. The high-capacity sorbent can process up to 400 μL per well and removes 99.0 to 100% of lysophosphatidyl and phosphatidyl cholines, which are not removed when a simple protein precipitation is performed. The one-step clean-up eliminates time-consuming method development, and the plate format enables the simultaneous processing of 96 samples, contributing to significant time savings.
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The second in its series of steroid hormone kits based on tandem mass spectrometry, the AbsoluteIDQ Stero17 kit can analyse up to 80 samples per batch, requires a sample volume of only 500 μL, and enables the most comprehensive simultaneous quantification of a steroid panel using HPLC-MS/ MS as well as improved high-throughput UHPLC–MS/MS analysis. The kit covers the standardized quantitative analysis of 17 of the most important steroid hormones from only a single blood sample using UHPLC-MS/MS, a technology meeting the most stringent quality control criteria for routine diagnostics, ensuring a high level of analytical sensitivity and selectivity, and guaranteeing superior accuracy and excellent precision for robust results. The kit, which has been approved by proficiency tests, comes complete with isotopelabelled internal standards, reagents and protocols for sample pre¬paration based on solid-phase extraction in a 96-well plate format and subsequent UHPLC-ESI-MS/ MS analysis in highly specific multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode and a tightly quality-controlled workflow. Given the significant role of steroid hormones in the body, their quantitative analysis in clinical diagnostics and research-based applications can be crucial. Compared to immunoassay-based tests, LC-MS/MS analysis offers the advantages of multiplexing (simultaneous analysis of multiple target analytes), higher specificity (by so-called multiple reaction monitoring (MRM), greater dynamic range of the calibration and lower inter-laboratory variability (including diversity in sample preparation, calibrators and analytical methods).
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