A clinical diagnostic laboratory has improved its real-time PCR assays using to its Viaflo 96 handheld electronic pipette.
The laboratory invested in the Viaflo 96 electronic pipette to both load the patient samples into plates and then to transfer the PCR master mix to the reaction plate as part of its process of screening patient samples for disease markers.
The work of processing around 100 plates per day had previously been done using 12-channel pipettes.
Manually filling a 96-well plate, including changing of pipette tips after every sample transfer, was time consuming and transferring the samples could be erro- prone.
Since buying the Viaflo, Integra claims work time has been halved. Transfer mistakes from plate to plate have also been eliminated and the light-sensitive PCR master mix is only exposed to daylight for a few seconds prior to the reaction.
Product features
- Handheld 96-channel electronic pipette that simultaneous transfer of 96 samples.
- Four pipetting heads with pipetting volumes up to 12.5 µl, 125 µl, 300 µl or 1250 µl are available.
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