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Tecan automation streamlines veterinary diagnostic processes

Featured news, News / 24 August 2010 / kdm communications limited

The Landeslabor Berlin-Brandenburg (LLBB) in Frankfurt, Germany, is dedicated to the protection of human and animal safety, health and welfare, and has chosen Tecan’s liquid handling workstations to help monitor diseases in cattle, including an extensive testing program for the eradication of Bovine Herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1). “By using Tecan’s process automation solutions for fully automated sample processing and high throughput ELISA, our laboratory is able to process close to 7,000 samples per day for BHV-1 testing at peak times. This has greatly enhanced the efficacy and reliability of the LLBB’s diagnostic service,” explained Sabine Thalheim at LLBB’s Department of Infectious Disease Testing.

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Automated cell biology workflows with Tecan and Miltenyi Biotec

Featured news, News / 17 August 2010 / kdm communications limited

Tecan is working with Miltenyi Biotec, a leading provider of cell biology solutions, to develop a range of automated solutions for cell biology, based on the powerful MACS® Magnetic bead technology. This new agreement will allow customers to benefit from the advanced capabilities of Tecan’s Freedom EVO® liquid handling platforms when performing a wide range of separation, cultivation and analysis processes for cells and biomolecules.

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Tecan and PhyNexus collaborate to automate protein purification

Featured news, News / 28 July 2010 / kdm communications limited

Tecan and PhyNexus have developed standard processes for automating protein purification using PhyTip® columns integrated onto a Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform. The Freedom EVO is equipped with a liquid handling arm and a MultiChannel Arm™, and controlled using specially adapted scripts of standard Freedom EVOware® operating software. Although primarily used for protein purification, the disposable PhyTip columns can be supplied packed with various types of resin, making their application range extremely broad. The majority of PhyTip columns do not require additional hardware, the only exception being gel filtration columns, which use a specific PhyNexus rack and are transported on the Freedom EVO platform by a robotic manipulator arm.

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Tecan automated solutions accelerate crop improvement

Featured news, News / 14 July 2010 / kdm communications limited

Scientists at the Institute of Plant Breeding at the University of Kiel, Germany, are using a Tecan Freedom EVO® liquid handling workstation to perform high throughput DNA purification and normalization, for the development of TILLING® (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) programs for rape seed and sugar beet. Tecan has worked closely with Macherey-Nagel to develop an automated protocol for the NucleoSpin® 96 Plant DNA extraction kits, helping the Institute achieve high throughput extraction.

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Tecan provides automated solutions for molecular pharmacology

Featured news, News / 5 July 2010 / kdm communications limited

The Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie in Berlin, Germany, is using Tecan’s Freedom EVO® workstations for systematic high throughput screening of bioactive small molecule libraries, looking for potential research tools and targets for drug development. Dr Jens Peter von Kries, Head of the Institute’s Screening Unit, explained: “The Screening Unit has a small team of staff performing library screens of around 20,000 compounds a day, and this high throughput is partly thanks to the flexibility of our Freedom EVO workstations. Many of our projects use either high content screening with automated microscopes or genome-wide RNA interference (RNAi) studies, and we have a Freedom EVO system configured for each of these methods, as well as a platform equipped with a REMP Small Size Store™ for management of the ChemBioNet screening library.”

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Tecan Freedom EVO® offers on demand protein expression

Featured news, News / 1 July 2010 / kdm communications limited

The High Throughput Expression (HiTEL) Laboratory at the University of York is a service facility offering bespoke protein expression, using a Freedom EVO 200 workstation to meet its heavy demand for complete automation of high throughput cloning, expression and screening. (more…)

ACCESSing yeast genomics

Featured news, News / 21 June 2010 / kdm communications limited

Tecan’s systems are providing an integrated solution to researchers at Stanford Genome Technology Center for the study of yeast genomics.

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New purity levels and options for Tecan’s MCA96 disposable tips

Featured news, News / 2 June 2010 / kdm communications limited

Tecan is continually expanding and updating its range of consumables to increase the flexibility of its liquid handling systems, and has recently introduced ‘Tecan Pure’ and ‘Tecan Sterile’ purity levels for its MCA96 disposable tips.

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Tecan’s remote monitoring for automation goes up a notch

Featured news, News / 26 May 2010 / kdm communications limited

Tecan, building on the success of its Common Notification System (CNS) for the remote monitoring of automation, presented the latest upgraded version at ALA’s LabAutomation 2010 conference in Palm Springs, California, USA.

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Tecan collaborates with Arizona State University to rapidly assess radiation exposure

Featured news, News / 29 April 2010 /

Tecan is collaborating with Arizona State University (ASU) to develop the Integrated Biodosimetry System, a prototype robotic system for rapid, high throughput screening to measure an individual’s level of exposure to radiation in the event of a radiological or nuclear incident.

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Tecan – a reliable service partner for Nycomed

Featured news, News / 28 April 2010 /

Global pharmaceutical company Nycomed uses Te-Care™ Complete service contracts to ensure adequate support without excessive or unexpected costs for its extensive range of Tecan instruments for pharmaceutical research and development. Peter Oehlen, service manager at Nycomed, has built up a team of specialists to provide technical support for the Nycomed’s research centers around the world, relying on support from equipment suppliers to help meet this demand. (more…)

Tecan’s Infinite® offers the MIDAS touch

Featured news / 8 April 2010 /

Avacta Group in York, UK, has chosen Tecan’s Infinite M200 microplate reader to play a pivotal role in offering innovative analytical services to the biopharmaceutical sector, where high quality and reproducible data acquisition is crucial. (more…)