HydroSpeed™ microplate washer
The HydroSpeed is Tecan’s advanced microplate washer, designed to provide optimized washing of cells, beads and ELISAs in both 96- and 384-well formats.
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The HydroSpeed washer enables full control of critical wash parameters, helping to maximize the efficiency of washing for cells, beads and ELISAs in 96- and 384-well format.
Its Cell Protection™ feature offers extra gentle cell washing with adjustable wash power, using drop-wise dispensing to avoid cell detachment. Tunable aspiration parameters, including needle position and vacuum level, help to minimize cell loss. For bead-based assays, the HydroSpeed’s patented design incorporates two powerful rare earth magnets per well for fast, efficient bead setting, complemented by adjustable vacuum level and aspiration position for optimized bead recovery. The Anti-Clogging™ function ensures reliable operation by actively preventing needle clogging – eliminating downtime due to blockages – supported by automatic initiation of wash head rinsing and soaking steps to avoid buffer crystallization. If necessary, easy exchange wash heads allow straightfoward external ultrasonic cleaning.
Real-time growth monitoring of spheroids in round bottom microplates
Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture systems have emerged as promising techniques in the field of cell-based assays, with approaches such as multicellular 3D spheroids (dense cell aggregates mostly comprised of cell lines) gaining widespread attention. Different methods of spheroid generation have been explored, such as magnetic levitation, hanging drop methods, and the use of ultra-low attachment (ULA) round bottom microplates for scaffold-free generation of 3D aggregates independent of solid carriers. Tecan describes the generation of spheroids in Corning 96-well, black, round bottom, ultra-low attachment microplates, and monitoring of spheroid growth in the Spark® Cyto multimode reader using brightfield (BF) and fluorescence (FL) imaging. Discover how the Spark Cyto provides ease of use, multiplexing capabilities, and the possibility of executing an entire workflow on one instrument.
Please note that Spark Cyto is for research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.
