At LabAutomation, PerkinElmer exhibited ten sophisticated and highly automated systems for liquid handling, cellular imaging, assays systems, plate readers and other detection systems
PerkinElmer exhibited ten sophisticated and highly automated systems for liquid handling, cellular imaging, assays systems, plate readers and other detection systems that significantly increase the productivity and performance of life science laboratories.
These products were showcased at LabAutomation in San Jose, California, in early February 2004.
Among the new systems to be introduced at LabAutomation are two new workstations for fully automated assay processing.
The Cell-Based and Elisa workstations provide complete, integrated solutions for speeding up the drug discovery process from sample preparation, using PerkinElmer's flexible Multiprobe II Plus or high-throughput Evolution P3 to integrated plate washers, reagent dispensers, incubators and multilabel detection technologies using PerkinElmer's EnVision or Victor3 plate readers.
These new automated systems join two other recently introduced automated Multiprobe II Plus systems for investigating nucleic acids and proteomics.
While all of the new workstations are sophisticated turnkey systems, they also emphasise ease of use so that labs can quickly benefit from the new capabilities. "Effective automation can provide a fundamental boost in speed at every point in the drug discovery process and cumulatively can dramatically improve a lab's capability to produce significant results," said Peter Coggins, president of PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences.
"Our expanding portfolio of liquid handling instruments is designed to speed key processes in drug discovery efforts by simplifying technical issues for scientists.
"Labs choosing PerkinElmer automated liquid handling systems can expect improved productivity, application-specific solutions, turnkey systems, modularity, ease of use, and a clear growth path."
