Enzo Biochem has announced a co-marketing partnership between its Enzo Life Sciences subsidiary and Biotek Instruments to provide integrated solutions for high-throughput live cell analysis.
Aimed at research institutions, as well as biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, this reagents-instrumentation collaboration aims to create a highly reproducible and reliable platform for live cell analysis, offering an alternative to dedicated microplate imaging-based systems.
The collaboration will be formally launched at Miptec 2009 in Basel, Switzerland with the presentation of the scientific poster, entitled 'A cost-effective workflow for high-throughput screening of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs)'.
The poster details the use of Enzo's Fluoforte calcium assay kit for monitoring intracellular calcium mobilisation with Biotek's Synergy MX monochromator-based multi-mode microplate reader.
Using Biotek's Precision XS automated sample processor for all dispensing steps in conjunction with Enzo's calcium indicator dye technology and the Synergy MX microplate reader provides a small-scale, automated cell-based screening approach for identifying GPCR agonists and antagonists.
The described assay workflow provides low sample-to-sample variability and excellent assay performance in a miniaturised format, according to the companies.
