Enhancing Microplate Sample Preparation

Porvair Sciences Ltd chose Pittcon 2009 meeting in Chicago, USA to unveil several new innovative microplate products that enable scientists to optimise sample preparation and improve productivity. Visitors to Booth 3798 saw the international launch of the 24-well MiniVAP™ sample concentrator and the new BioVyon® range of sample preparation and separation microplates. For laboratories looking to remove the traditional drug discovery ’bottleneck’ of solvent evaporation in 24-well microplates prior to analysis or reconstitution in buffer -
Porvair Sciences’ new 24-well MiniVap™ sample concentrator will be of particular interest. The affordable 24-well MiniVap takes just minutes to dry down a plate. Compact in design the MiniVap will fit into any standard fume cupboard and is ideal for laboratories tasked with smaller numbers of individual 24-well plates.

Based upon proprietary ultra-clean BioVyon ’solid state’ media and ActiVyon™ technologies the new range of Porvair Sciences Protein A, C8 and C18 96-well microplates eliminate channelling effects found with traditional protein and SPE separation products. This enables higher purity separations and shorter processing times as flow rates can be increased. Designed to be easily assembled and disassembled by robotic manipulators the new Porvair Sciences Universal Robotic Manifold enables productive automation of SPE or DNA cleanup
procedures. Able to accommodate collection plates from 14mm - 44mm in height and adaptable to work with three different lengths of drip director the Universal Robotic Manifold offers the unique capability of being able to operate with all brands of filter plate and waste collection reservoir tray. At this important meeting Porvair Sciences also exhibited the MiniSeal™, an entry-level semi-automated thermal sealer developed for laboratories sealing small to medium batches of microplates. The versatile device is capable of producing an accurate and tight seal on any SBS proposed standard, deep well or PCR microplate from 3 to 62mm in height. Also on display will be the popular TriSeal High Throughput Sealing Station, running with an automated stacker/loader. This powerful combination offers unattended sealing of up to 100 microplates per batch.