Pressure Biosciences has announced that it is to release its PCT Microtube adapter kit at the 57th Annual Conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS).
There will be at least six presentations by independent scientists on the advantages of the company's pressure cycling technology (PCT) and/or its PCT Microtube adapter kit in mass spec studies.
The PCT Microtube adapter kit includes an ergonomically designed, space-saving workstation, PCT Microtubes and Microcaps, and specialised tools to enable the user to process up to 48 samples simultaneously in the PCT sample preparation system (PCT SPS).
The new PCT Microtube is made of a polymer that features extreme chemical resistance, broad useable temperature range, non-wetting surface, negligible protein and nucleic acid binding, and the ability to efficiently transmit pressure from the pressure generating instrument (barocycler) to the sample.
The PCT Microcap was designed with an added feature to allow it to easily excise and transfer protein gel spots to the PCT Microtube for processing, a necessary function in many mass spec labs that is currently done by cutting the protein spots out by hand, or by expensive robotic systems.
The PCT Microtube adapter kit, in combination with the PCT SPS, can reliably increase the quality and decrease the cost of sample preparation for the mass spectrometry field.
Additionally, the small volume, high-throughput PCT Microtube consumable will broaden the use of PCT into areas of proteomic and genomic sample preparation outside of mass spectrometry, such as biomarker discovery, plant and animal biology, and forensics.
