With the new Sciproclimate One climate chamber Scienion bridges a present gap in the production of microarrays
Sciproclimate One is optimised for the production of microarrays to improve the binding of capture molecules onto microarray substrates.
Using the chamber, immobilisation efficiency and the reproducibility of spots can be increased.
With this new product Scienion offers a solution for a crucial step in the production of microarrays: the immobilisation of capture molecules on different microarray surfaces.
Due to the handling of smaller and smaller amounts of liquid volumes, this process is getting increasingly difficult with conventional methods.
Usually spots run dry very quickly resulting in unwanted effects on the binding efficiency of the capture molecules onto carriers.
Sciproclimate One allows for controlled conditions for this process and helps minimising spotting artifacts like 'donuts' or 'ghost spots'.
Electronically controlled, a laminar airflow is generated in the chamber providing constant temperature and humidity.
Up to 32 glass slides can be processed in parallel in Sciproclimate One .
Holger Eickhoff, CEO of Scienion, states: "Following our aim to offer complete solutions Sciproclimate One is an excellent extension of our product portfolio".
"With this climate chamber we address a weak point in the microarray production process because it not only facilitates the binding of bio-molecules onto carriers but also assures a constant high quality of microarrays by providing controlled moisture and temperature conditions resulting in an increase in the reproducibility and significance of experiments." Sciproclimate One was developed by the Bremen-based company Ribocon , a spin-off from the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology.
Scienion will distribute this climate chamber.
It will be presented for the first time at the Scienion booth at Analytica in Munich, April 25-28, 2006.
