CytoSMART Technologies, an Axion Bio company, has launched a new Organoid Analysis Module for use with its flagship CytoSMART Omni live-cell imaging product line. The innovative software module, which incorporates next-generation machine learning capabilities, is designed to meet growing scientific demand from researchers and drug developers using complex three-dimensional (3D) in vitro models such as […]

HORIBA Medical says that its novel haemostatic immunoassay, Yumizen G DDi 2, has been independently validated for the rapid quantification of D-dimer. Scientists from the Hematology Department, University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, have successfully evaluated its analytical performance [1]. Using HORIBA Medical’s Yumizen G800 fully automated haemostasis analyzer, they detected venous thromboembolism (VTE) with excellent accuracy, […]

Built with renowned Olympus optics, intuitive software, a powerful AI and a suite of smart features, the APX100 system combines the ease of use of an all-in-one microscope with publication-quality images to make life science research more efficient. Designed for labs and imaging core facilities, the microscope’s small footprint, built-in anti-vibration mechanism and light-shielded optics […]

INTEGRA Biosciences’ pipetting solutions are being used by renegade.bio to address the urgent need of diagnostic testing for COVID-19 in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. The company carries out huge numbers of SARS-CoV-2 assays each day, and has chosen INTEGRA’s automated adjustable electronic pipettes and pipetting robots to perform PCR assays faster and more cost-effectively, while retaining high degrees of sensitivity and specificity.

Renegade.bio is a public-benefit corporation, and was founded in March 2020 to make SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing more accessible to the wider population, supporting health equity goals. When setting up its workflow, the company chose to combine a decentralized approach to sample collection with automation of repetitive liquid handling tasks with INTEGRA pipetting solutions, reducing their costs while greatly increasing productivity and still turning around assay results in as little as 12 hours.

Dr Gabriel Paulino, Co-founder and Vice President of Product Development and Innovation at renegade.bio, commented: “The ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot equipped with a VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipette is one of our main automation platforms. This has really helped us to increase our throughput, as the VOYAGER is the only solution that can automatically adjust the distance between the individual tips, allowing us to move samples between our different sample tubes and plates easily. We also use the VIAFLO 96 handheld electronic pipette for assay set-up, as it’s really useful to be able to pipette reagents into every well of a microplate at the same time.”

“We love the user interface of the INTEGRA products. It’s so easy to program the pipettes, and these intuitive tools have made the whole assay process incredibly streamlined. All the pipetting is now automated, which helps to reduce human error and fatigue, and allows us to work around the clock at our maximum capacity of around 2000 tests a day. INTEGRA was definitely the right solution for us, and we’ve recently invested in a MINI 96 portable electronic pipette to further streamline our workflows.”

• Visit the INTEGRA Biosciences website to learn more.

Ziath says they will be exhibiting their latest DP5 range scanners and readers at most major laboratory and automation events across Europe over the next few months.

Highlights of products on show will include the new Handheld 3 device to directly interrogate your sample inventory database directly from the freezer, the new Uno and Duo convenient low-cost single tube readers and the Mohawk / Mirage combination sample picking and verification station.

Lab Days Copenhagen, Nordic Biobanking Symposium

These innovative sample management products will be on show at Lab Days Copenhagen and the Nordic Biobanking Symposium in Gothenburg (both 6-8 September), the ELRIG-FR automation village at Forum Labo in Lyon (19-20 September) and at WOTS 2022 in Utrecht (27-30 September 2022).

SLAS/ELRIG Drug Discovery, Spanish National Biobanking

Visitors to SLAS/ELRIG Drug Discovery at London’s Excel Centre on 4-5 October and the Spanish National Biobanking show in Santander on 27-28 October will also be able to see LUX – a new portable whole rack barcode reader. LUX is designed to scan and decode a 96-well rack of 2D barcoded tubes in under a second and send the data wirelessly straight to your laptop, tablet, or phone.

• Download the Ziath 2022 product range catalogue