Problem Solved — Rapid Sample Transfer Between Differing Labware Formats

By Jonathan Harkins, INTEGRA Viaflo

Multichannel pipettes have become an indispensable liquid handling tool for biochemical and molecular biology assays in life science laboratories over the last decades. This demand is fueled by the need to increase productivity due to reasons like growing sample numbers, faster sample processing and analysis as well as the shareholder demands of running the business most profitably.

Yet many laboratory standard applications involve moving samples between different labware formats as the samples are often collected or prepared in vessels differing from the vessels where subsequent working process steps are conducted. Moving samples from racked single tubes to 96 or 384 well assay plates; 6, 24 or 48 well cell culture plates, PCR strips or plates and SDS or agarose gels is routine in many labs.