Life Science News and Press Releases

Building a case of precision pipetting with Tecan’s Air LiHa

Tecan Trading AG

26/11/2013

The DNA Section of the Orange County Crime Laboratory (OCCL) in California, USA, has recently taken delivery of its first Air LiHa equipped Freedom EVO® workstation for DNA quantitation and amplification reaction set-up. Complementing the laboratory’s existing liquid displacement Freedom EVO platforms for DNA extraction, this new instrument will help to streamline the workflow and improve pipetting precision. Robert Binz, a Forensic Scientist at OCCL, explained:...

Enhancing clinical diagnostics with Tecan’s Cavro® Omni Robot

Tecan Trading AG

22/10/2013

Zivak Technologies, based in Istanbul, Turkey, relies on Tecan’s Cavro® Omni Robot to automate liquid handling for its clinical diagnostic HPLC and LC¬MSMS systems. Mr Avni Çavdar, President of Zivak, explained: “Our Company was approached by several large government hospitals in Turkey that perform a great many organ transplants. Organ recipients are monitored frequently to ensure that they receive the appropriate dose of immunosuppressant...

Developing new molecular tools for the fight against hospital-associated infections with Tecan’s Freedom EVO®

Tecan Trading AG

17/09/2013

A Freedom EVO® workstation with an integrated HydroSpeed™ plate washer and Infinite® F200 PRO multimode reader is helping researchers at Jikei University School of Medicine to perform high throughput compound screening in the battle to combat persistent bacterial infections. Dr Ken-¬ichi Okuda, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bacteriology at Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, explained: “Bacteria within biofilms have a low...

Creating perfect growth conditions with Tecan’s Infinite® M200 PRO

Tecan Trading AG

22/08/2013

Tecan’s Infinite® M200 PRO microplate reader is helping researchers at the University of Salzburg, Austria, to monitor cell growth of microaerophilic bacteria. Univ-Prof Dr Silja Wessler, Professor in Microbiology, explained: “We research a wide range of cellular signal transduction pathways initiated by the interaction of host cells with pathogens like Helicobacter pylori, and were approached to beta test the new Gas Control Module (GCM™) for the...

A 3D InSight™ into drug discovery with Tecan’s Infinite® M200 PRO

Tecan Trading AG

16/07/2013

A novel solution for analyzing 3D cell cultures, based on Tecan’s Infinite® M200 PRO and InSphero’s 3D InSight™ microtissue technology, is helping to reduce the cost of early phase drug development. Dr Jens M Kelm, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of InSphero, explained: “Although classical 2D cell culture techniques are still widely used throughout the pharmaceutical industry, their limitations are becoming increasingly apparent. The...

Tecan Cavro® components help in the battle against infectious diseases

Tecan Trading AG

18/06/2013

Scientists at F Cubed have developed a novel molecular analyzer which relies on Tecan’s Cavro® Centris Pump and Cavro Smart Valve to offer straightforward identification of pathogens in a matter of minutes. The NESDEP IU Molecular Diagnostic System is designed to detect a wide range of pathogens, offering femtomolar specificity from ultra¬small sample sizes. F Cubed technical manager Chris Chanelli explained: “The NESDEP analyzer is an integrated unit...

Holding the right CARDs with Tecan Cavro® components

Tecan Trading AG

30/04/2013

Rheonix Inc, a molecular diagnostics device manufacturer based in Ithaca, New York, has integrated Tecan’s Cavro® Air Displacement Pipettor (ADP) into its EncompassMDx™ molecular platform, providing complete automation of sample processing and analysis using Rheonix CARD® technology. The CARD system allows complete automation of nucleic acid testing of various biological sample types, including FFPE (formalin fixed paraffin embedded) samples, using a...

Keeping a watchful eye on biosecurity with Tecan’s Infinite® F500

Tecan Trading AG

05/03/2013

BioSentinel has selected Tecan’s Infinite® F500 as the reader of choice for its high sensitivity botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) assays. Dr Ward Tucker, Director of Research and Development at BioSentinel, explained: “Our fluorescence¬-based BoTest® and BoCell® assays were developed using a high end, monochromator-based reader; however, we needed a more cost-effective solution that we could recommend to customers who did not already have...

Tecan and Promega offer variable volume DNA isolation

Tecan Trading AG

15/11/2012

Tecan and Promega have developed a turnkey workstation for fully automated extraction of gDNA from whole blood samples. Designed to meet the needs of biobanks and high throughput genomic laboratories, the Freedom EVO® ¬ HSM workstation provides reliable walkaway extraction of gDNA from large volume blood samples using Promega’s proven ReliaPrep™ Large Volume HT gDNA Isolation System.The Freedom EVO - HSM workstation is designed to streamline biobanking...