Why use automation in the laboratory?Many small laboratories want to optimise their processes and increase their throughput rates but recoil at the frequently high costs and time-consuming integration work, when only simple combinations of devices or magazines are required…
What solution is technically best at the PoC or in an automated laboratory?
Unfortunately, there is no single answer to this question, so we will tackle it by contrasting various concepts that take into account a wide variety of applications involving automated pipetting devices…
Hose and peristaltic pumps are widely used in medical and laboratory equipment. Liquid substances of various kinds, e.g. reagents or even blood in the dialysis machine, are transported with them…
Widespread in the animal kingdom, for people an option. The skeleton on the outside of arthropods provides stability in the same way as the endoskeletons of mammals. Why not combine the advantages of the two systems with each other? An endoskeleton (inside the body) is strong but, having numerous joints, is nevertheless very flexible. It […]