Tecan

Tecan has reshaped liquid handling and process automation with Fluent, an exceptional instrumentation concept providing a choice of workstation capacities, and robotics, liquid handling and application options to suit the process-specific needs of your laboratory.

Fluent offers new opportunities to laboratories looking for state-of-the-art automation to:

• Increase productivity
• Streamline workflows
• Optimize assay precision and consistency
• Relieve operators from repetitive tasks

The system’s fully modular, open architecture allows each instrument to be individually configured with robotic arms for pipetting and labware movement, helping laboratories to meet throughput, cost saving and productivity targets.

Our innovative liquid handling technologies are flexible and reliable. Their advanced designs will bring improved efficiency and safety to almost any life science laboratory workflow. In addition, we provide numerous standardized and validated packaged solutions for specific applications.

The Freedom EVO series offers four different worktable capacities (75, 100, 150 and 200 cm) each with building-block modularity that brings precision, reliable liquid handling and easy-to-use robotics.

Each of the robotic platforms offers an advanced, proven and reliable liquid handling system for different scales and throughputs. With the choice of various liquid handling and manipulative robotic arms we provide an extendable work area and variable configurations. Freedom EVO workstations can automate a diverse range of applications including primary and secondary screening, cell growth and maintenance, nucleic acid sample preparation, hit picking, library management and sample weighing.

Applications

• Cell based assay
• AlphaScreen® and AlphaLISA®
• Fluorescence intensity (top and bottom reading)
• Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)
• Time resolved fluorescence energy transfer (TR-FRET)
• Time resolved fluorescence (TRF)
• Fluorescence polarization (FP)
• Flash luminescence
• Glow luminescence
• Dual-color luminescence (including BRET 1 & BRET 2 applications)
• Absorbance (UV – NIR & wavelength scanning)
• Injectors system for up to two reagents
• Temperature control
• Small sample measurement in NanoQuant Plate

Applications

• Cell Counting
• Cell Incubation
• Reagent Dispensing & Stirring
• Fluorescence
• Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
• Time Resolved Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (TR-FRET)
• Fluorescence Polarization
• Absorbance
• Cuvette port
• DNA / Protein Quantitation
• NA labeling efficiency
• AlphaTechnology (AlphaScreen, AlphaLISA, AlphaPlex)
• Luminescence Flash & Glow
• Luminescence Scanning
• Multi-Color Luminescence

The HydroFlex Plus microplate washer is a truly flexible and upgradeable platform for automated microplate strip washing, magnetic bead washing and vacuum filtration in 96-well plate formats. It is an ideal solution for a wide range of cell-, bead- and ELISA-based applications, reflecting over 30 years of Tecan expertise in advanced liquid handling.

The HydroSpeed is Tecan’s advanced plate washer, designed for quick, parallel washing of entire 96- and 384-well plates. This avoids time differences between the wells for uniform results. In addition, the HydroSpeed provides full control of wash power for optimized washing of cells, beads and ELISAs.

The DreamPrep NAP workstation featuring Zymo Research simplifies your nucleic acid extraction workflows – today and in the future. Its optimized workflow for the Quick- DNA/RNA™ Viral MagBead kit was developed and verified in close collaboration with Zymo Research, and allows purification of up to 96 samples in less than two hours.

Spark Cyto is a multi-mode plate reader with fluorescence imaging and cytometry capabilities, unlocking new possibilities for your cell-based research. By combining live cell imaging with industry-leading detection technologies, you now have the ability to unite qualitative and quantitative information into unique multi-parameter data sets.

Your cells don’t stay static when you leave the lab, so your research requires a dynamic instrument that ensures you never miss a key event. Spark Cyto works in real -time, using parallel data acquisition and analysis- to deliver meaningful insights faster than before.