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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March
12, 2004.
Tecan
(Europe) has announced the availability of issue 4 of the Tecan
Journal providing scientists involved with Drug Discovery, Genomics,
Proteomics and Clinical Diagnostics a global insight into the latest
laboratory automation application developments and product introductions..
Insight
into new automated laboratory applications …
Tecan
(Europe) has announced the availability of issue 4 of the Tecan
Journal providing scientists involved with Drug Discovery, Genomics,
Proteomics and Clinical Diagnostics a global insight into the latest
laboratory automation application developments and product introductions.
An
article from Transnetyx, a Memphis, Tennessee based company, describes
a new automated microarray system using several solutions from Tecan
that is accelerating its high throughput geneotyping service. The
proprietary process automates the entire screening protocol for
detecting transgenic, knock-out and knock-out alleles in laboratory
mice.
A
new automated system to test the function of thrombocytes, an important
tool for the diagnosis of hemostatic disorders, is described in
an article from Professor H Trobisch from the Facharzt fur Laboratoriums-
und Transfusionsmedizin in Duisburg. The article describes how the
automated system based on the Tecan Genesis Freedom has replaced
a manual system for testing 120 samples per day, releasing staff
to perform other tasks, improving data quality and giving physicians
and clinics much faster access to their results.
A
further report details the work of Swiss cosmetics company, Beierdorff
AG who have been working on the automation of a test to identify
substances with antimicrobial activity against the bacterial strain
Corynebacterium xerosis ATCC 7711. The automated microbiology system
based upon the Tecan Genesis robotic manipulator has doubled the
throughput of the test while maintaining the system free of contamination.
Further
articles in Tecan Journal 1/2004 introduce EVOware, next generation
control software for the Freedom EVO automation platform and the
Safire2, a fully modular monochromator-based microplate detection
system that offers a range of high-speed fluorescence techniques.
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