HP Direct Digital Titration Available to Drug Discovery Biologists

Tecan recently announced the commercial availability of the new HP D300 Digital Dispenser, a simple, standalone
instrument for the pharmaceutical sector, which uses HP Direct Digital Dispensing technology to rapidly deliver picoliter to microliter volumes of drug compounds.

Available exclusively through Tecan, this innovative device can cut titration times from hours or days to just minutes. Based on HP inkjet technology, the Digital Dispenser is the result of an agreement between Tecan and HP to commercialise this new technology for use in drug discovery research.

The HP D300 provides fast and reliable performance across a large dynamic range, eliminating the need for slow, errorprone and wasteful serial dilutions.

Using disposable dispenseheads to help avoid the possibility of cross-contamination, the instrument offers  non-contact digital dispensing from 13pl to 5μl, delivering any dose to any well and virtually eliminating waste of valuable compounds.

It combines walk up convenience, ready-to-run performance and flexible, intuitive experiment design software to increase research productivity, reliability of results and the speed of drug discovery workflows.

Wendy Lauber, Head Product Management for Liquid Handling and Consumables at Tecan, commented: “The pharmaceutical industry is recognising a need for change, and there is a growing trend towards benchtop automation solutions.

New technologies such as Direct Digital Titration can offer fresh solutions to entrenched challenges, helping to improve productivity and accelerate the discovery of better drugs.”

The HP D300 Digital Dispenser is available now for delivery in Europe and North America.