New digital reagent dispensers released by Thermo Fisher Scientific

American biotechnology product development company, Thermo Fisher Scientific (MA, USA), have announced two new high precision digital reagent dispensers. The precise dispensing capability of the new dispensers could minimize expensive reagent loss, reduce the need for re-runs and help to increase laboratory throughput.

The new digital reagent dispensers could be useful for scientists working across drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, bioanalytical, pre-clinical and clinical trial applications. Designed to dispense reagent volumes between 11 picoliters to 200 microliters in any well, the digital dispensers could minimize the potential for human error and repetitive strain injuries.

Compared to manual pipetting workflows, a broad array of low-volume applications, including qPCR, dose-response curves, drug screening assays, serial dilutions and ELISAs could be enhanced. The new digital reagent dispensers make use of disposable, non-contactable dispensing heads which eliminate carry over and could help to protect sample integrity.

Sung Dae Hong, vice president and general manager for laboratory plastics essentials (Thermo Fisher Scientific) explained: “Manual pipetting poses a number of important challenges, from result variability and bias to time and cost inefficiencies and ergonomic stresses. The new high precision Multidrop Pico 1 and Pico 8 Digital Dispensers are capable of easily and quickly delivering high quality results, while minimizing reagent usage and waste.”

Source: www.rdworldonline.com/new-high-precision-digital-reagent-dispensers-facilitate-assay-miniaturization-and-increased-throughput/; thermofisher.com/digitaldispenser