Tecan’s Smart Automation solutions offer straightforward liquid handling

Männedorf, Switzerland, May 6, 2014 – Tecan has launched a range of turnkey solutions designed to provide fast, simple and cost-effective automation of liquid handling tasks. Based on the Freedom EVO® 75 platform, these preconfigured systems are designed to eliminate tedious manual liquid handling tasks without the need for previous automation experience.

Each Smart Automation solution is supplied with optimized, ready-to-run protocols, and includes all of the modules and ancillary devices necessary to automate your manual processes. The first Smart Automation solutions to be launched are:

• a Pickolo™ fully automated colony picking workstation – offering an extensive choice of selection criteria, agar types and picking techniques for various micro-organisms and plate formats;
• a vacuum-based nucleic acid extraction platform – using MACHEREY-NAGEL NucleoSpin® kits to provide flexible batch processing for up to 48 samples, including blood, tissue, bacteria and cells;
• a magnetic bead-based nucleic acid separation workstation – using MACHEREY-NAGEL NucleoMag® kits for individual or 8-sample strip processing for up to 96 food, feed, tissue bacterial or cell samples.