Advanced Technologies Cambridge (ATC) in Cambridge, UK, is using Quantitative PCR techniques to assay transgenic plant cells, and uses Tecan’s Freedom EVO 100 liquid handling
workstation to automate pipetting tasks for these screens. The Company has a strong research interest in plant biotechnology. Tim Beddoes, a molecular biologist at ATC, explained: “Our current workstation set-up has an eight channel arm and uses Tecan’s 50μl disposable tips with 384-well format plates. The reproducibility is comparable to manual pipetting, but the tasks are performed much more quickly. We perform our QPCR in final reaction volumes of 25μl, because using relatively small
volumes obviously cuts down on reagent and sample costs, and the 50μl tips are perfect for pipetting the 5μl of DNA and 20μl of master mix. The 50μl tip is also ideal for aliquoting fractions for experimental replicates.”
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