Speed up your microplate pipetting

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The Liquidator 96 is METTLER TOLEDO’s simple, bench-top solution for simultaneous 96-well pipetting. It provides rapid and consistent simultaneous microplate pipetting without the need for a complex and expensive robotic system.

Many life science applications require precise liquid handling in 96- or 384-well formats, with results depending on the accuracy and consistency of pipetting. An array of robotic liquid handling platforms exists capable of highly precise, reproducible pipetting, yet logistics and a lack of resources often make these systems impractical, particularly for academic labs.

The Liquidator 96 system is METTLER TOLEDO’s simple answer to this complex issue, providing high performance manual 96-well pipetting with almost no set-up time. The system’s ergonomic design and small footprint make it ideal for use in a variety of applications, including within a fume hood or laminar flow cabinet for applications using hazardous chemicals or requiring sterile conditions.

The Liquidator 96 is particularly suited to applications requiring several 96-well microplates, such as dispensing of buffers or growth mediums, offering significant time savings and improved accuracy compared with 8-channel pipettes. The rate of aspiration and dispense is controlled directly by the user, allowing both rapid addition of reagents for kinetic experiments and careful dispensing of viscous or particulate-containing fluids, without having to spend time changing the system’s settings.

Thanks to the platform’s high stability and easy to operate dispense mechanism, the Liquidator 96 can also be used with 384-well format microplates, allowing accurate, error-free pipetting without the need for costly automated systems. These high density microplate formats are increasingly used in genomics research, making the Liquidator 96 a ‘must-have’ solution for genetic laboratories without the budget or space for robotic pipetting platforms. To further improve results for these applications, the Liquidator 96 is fully compatible with RAININ BioClean™ disposable tips. These high quality pipette tips are precision manufactured to ensure accurate pipetting, and are independently tested to guarantee they are free from DNase, RNase, DNA, pyrogens and ATP.

SOURCE: METTLER TOLEDO