assay miniaturization solutions at Innovadyne Technologies
Dispensing instruments from Innovadyne provide a robust and low-maintenance means of achieving assay miniaturization without compromising precision or accuracy. Reagent costs, sample scarcity and assay sensitivity are all factors that are driving liquid handling performance to lower volumes, and precise sub-100 nL non-contact dispensing is fast becoming a requirement in protein crystallography, molecular diagnostics, assay development and high-throughput screening. Innovadyne’s non-contact dispensing instruments deliver high precision over a broad (nanoliters to microliters) dispensing range, with CV’s under 5% at 1 µL, under 7% at 200 nL and under 10% at 100 nL.
Traditional (flow-through) low-volume liquid handling technologies frequently offer a fixed volume at the expense of accuracy and precision, or a variable volume range at the expense of delivery or dead volume, and are prone to fouling and cross-contamination. Innovadyne’s patented non-contact aspirate and dispense architecture, with no moving parts in the fluid path, creates a robust and flexible device that is capable of mixing and dispensing a wide variety of reagents with much less maintenance than flow-through systems and much higher throughput than traditional liquid handlers. The result is assay miniaturization without loss of precision, enabling researchers to increase throughput while lowering the use of rare or hard-to-produce samples and reagents.
