Biocision is offering thermo-conductive Coolracks for bench-top sample cooling and freezing within clinical, diagnostics, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and CRO applications.
The Coolracks are said to introduce critical reproducibility and instant organisation into bench-top sample cooling and freezing.
The company claims that, often, simple procedures such as bench-top sample cooling, freezing and snap-freezing can vary from sample to sample, researcher to researcher, clinic to clinic and day to day.
Coolrack thermo-conductive tube, plate and sample holders standardise temperature control and are suitable for laboratory and clinical sample management.
Precision engineered and manufactured from patent-pending thermo-adaptive alloy, Coolracks quickly equilibrate all wells to within 0.1C of the source temperature.
Coolracks are portable, versatile and can be implemented in any procedure requiring ice, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, water bath, heat block or any other laboratory temperature source.
All samples are kept upright at exactly the same temperature regardless of well position and racked samples can be moved from ice to water bath en masse, giving a rapid identical temperature shift for all samples.
In addition to eliminating temperature variability, Coolracks are designed to provide stable, compact and indexed organisation, saving time and reducing the user errors commonly associated with directly immersing tubes or plates in ice, dry ice or other sources.
For ice-free portable cooling and freezing, Coolracks can be paired with the Coolbox, which utilises cartridges to maintain cooling and freezing temperatures on the bench top, in biosafety cabinets or in GMP suites, where ice could be a potential source of contamination.
When using a Coolrack for snap-freezing or freezing samples to dry ice or liquid-nitrogen temperatures, samples are not directly immersed into dry ice, dry ice/alcohol slurries or liquid nitrogen, minimising user errors, accidents, temperature profile variability, damage and contamination from alcohol or liquid-nitrogen immersion.
Coolracks can be used for many portable temperature applications.
'In the context of the worldwide effort to standardise common sample-handling processes, Coolracks introduce simplicity and reproducibility to a variety of basic research and clinical protocols involving temperature-sensitive biologics, vaccines, RNA, DNA and enzymes,' said Rolf Ehrhardt, Biocision's chief executive officer.
Coolracks are available in a range of formats for use with cryo tubes, microfuge tubes, PCR strips and plates, as well as many other consumables, and can be integrated into any process or diagnostic or clinical kit.
In conjunction with the Coolbox, Coolracks can also be used for short-term sample transfer or transportation, as the Coolbox maintains the temperature of the Coolrack for up to eight hours.
