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Aug 2, 2006 10:03 am
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Hey guys and gals, I work for a Johnson and Johnson subsidiery and may have a need for and engineer or consultant to assist us in wrapping up a robotics...
Who manufactures tips for the Molecular Devices instrument PatchXpress 7000A? Richard Rodriguez Research Automation Technology Manager MDS PharmaServices, Inc....
Rodriguez, Richard
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Aug 4, 2006 6:31 pm
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Dear Dave, Thermo offers an automated -80°C freezer for 924 SBS sized standard height plates or racks. It depends what capacity and temperature you are...
Tom, You should post this on our Career Opportunities forum at: http://lab-robotics.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=4 for maximum exposure. Best of luck, Andy...
Hi, At this point, the only tips we can recommend for use on the PatchXpress 7000A are the BioRobotix tips made by Molecular BioProducts, catalog numbers...
We are a university research center with a great deal of experience and infrastructure in automation, robotics, and machine vision. We are now exploring the...
Hello Michael, I wanted to follow up to see how you made out with your request for information. I'm with the Center for Automation Technologies and Systems at...
Dear Sirs, I read with great interest your recent request for suggestions on laboratory robotics projects for the life sciences and chemical industry. My own...
Hi Mike, At those rates, you can reduce tooling expense by using an articulated manipulator/robot(s) to manage the parts from start to finish. If you would...
Hi Kevin We did something similar with nasty acids awhile back at Labman. If you have a process outline or schematic or something I'd love to see what we might...
Hi, I tried cherrypicking on our Biomek 2K workstation it worked fine. I tried to transfer the samples onto a 384 well plate in a specific pattern but with no...
We are in the early stages of a process where we seek to validate our technology for nanodispensing into 384 well plates and are in particular looking at...
There is an application note on our website (www.labcyte.com) that describes how to do this. It is under publications and then application notes. It describes...
The way I usually go at this is: 1. Dispense 10nL of 10uM fluorescein with the nanodispenser. 2. Dispense 100uL of ph7 buffer to give a final concentration of...
Try tartrazine (aka yellow food color, although some yellow food color has other dyes mixed in) non toxic extremely water soluble signal relatively independent...
ezra s abrams
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Aug 21, 2006 7:05 pm
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I believe Ezra is referring to a paper I wrote, but it appeared in JALA (Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation), not the Journal of Biomolecular...
John Bradshaw
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Aug 22, 2006 5:37 pm
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At Drug Discovery 2006 a few weeks ago there was a small robot that could pick up cryovials, unscrew the cap, read the barcode and then transfer the liquid to...
Hi We've developed such an system called the XTP-1152 (from the number of tubes it holds on the deck). The system is shown using 96 format tubes and cryo tubes...
Hello The Fluidx Personal Pippetor has a control computer which can be a Pocket PC. I am interested in the usefulness of this approach. For example. Do people...
I don't remember seeing that specific system. The uncapping/capping is the critical part of the system you describe, as the barcode reading and liquid handling...
Andy Zaayenga
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Aug 24, 2006 7:02 pm
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Andy wrote: Tecan offers capping/decapping on the Genesis FE500: http://www.tecan.com/platform/apps/product/index.asp?MenuID=1191&ID=573& ...
Jeff Aufmann, T-US
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Aug 25, 2006 3:33 pm
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We have used PDAs to controll instruments in the past. We are currently redesigning all of them to run off of an embedded computer because the PDAs do not...
Hi The system, you have seen could be a Tomtec system, which can run with Nalgene and external thread Nunc barcoded cryo vials, and do decapping, reading and...
Corbett Intruments uses a pocket PC to control a thermal cycler; thousdands have been sold, but I don't know about the history of replacements. You might call...
Hello, My company, Ziath has also written a Pocket PC application - DropPaq - to control bulk dispensers (multidrop, wellmate, etc) which extends the...
I believe the instrument that you are describing is the Tomtec Formatter. They have a website at www.tomtec.com <http://www.tomtec.com> . Lorie Croston Nalge...
We are using silicone tubing with platinum curing (cole parmer p/n 95802-05)for transferring cells from a flask to a reservoir. However, there are other...
I have a customer that is interested in an automated plate storage system that will pick and retrieve plates from a list and present them to the user. This ...
gmiertschin@...
Aug 29, 2006 9:46 pm
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Does anyone have a set of standard grippers for a twister (not II) for sale? Thanks Mark...
