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Consumables
Acumen®
Filter Sets
The Acumen eX3 uses filter sets to select distinct regions of the spectrum for analysis. A wide range of filter sets are available to purchase in addition to those supplied as standard. Exchange of filters is a simple operation on the Acumen eX3. Filter sets can be manufactured for specific fluorophores. Alternative filters sets can be produced subject to commercial availability of the filters.
Slide Scanning
The Acumen eX3 is capable of scanning tissue sections mounted on microscope slides, and is undeniably suited for this use due to its large field of view (400mm2). The rapid collection of multi-coloured fluorescence data from whole sections of tissue may be achieved in minutes.
To facilitate tissue scanning, TTP LabTech offer screen printed microscope slides for the accurate targeting of tissue samples within a defined scan area. Slides may be immersed in water baths for tissue section retrieval.
To automate the scanning of multiple slides per run, TTP LabTech have also designed two slide holders, each incorporating up to 4 slides in SBS microplate format. The top-loading slide holder is designed to prevent tissue sections from rounding or lifting up at the edges. The bottom loading slide holder is robot friendly, and may be stacked for automated loading of multiple holders into the Acumen eX3 via commercial plate handling robots.
mosquito®
mosquito’s disposable micropipettes consist of a stainless steel piston in a close-fitting high-density polyethylene barrel. These inert materials have no effect on most reagents and are strong enough to pierce most plate sealing films. Their low cost can save as much as 50% on the price of other disposable tip technologies.
The micropipettes are shipped and loaded onto the instrument using a spool similar to a film reel. This provides extremely high density storage for 26,000 or 36,000 pipettes, and results in a huge reduction in plasticware compared to traditional disposable tips.
For very sensitive applications which require a fresh pipette for every single well, a single reel of 26,000 micropipettes can service more than 270 x 96-well plates or a reel of 36,000 can service 90 x 384-well plates before needing to be replaced. For applications where pipette changing is not required for every step, such as sampling to multiple daughter plates, pipette efficiencies go up dramatically. Reel changeover takes less than 2 minutes.
TTP LabTech also offer consumables specifically for protein crystallography, which include micro-reservoir strips for holding protein sample, and our range of low-cost ViewDrop plate seals for hanging drop set-ups.
| Part Number | Description |
| 4150-03010 | Spool of 36,000+ pipettes at 4.5mm pitch (384+ well plates). Non-sterile |
| 4150-03020 | Spool of 26,000+ pipettes at 9.0mm pitch (96+ well plates). Non-sterile |
| 4150-03100 | 8-position 5uL micro-reservoir strips for 9mm pitch (50/pack) |
| 4150-03110 | 8-position 2uL micro-reservoir strips for 9mm pitch (50/pack) |
| 4150-05100 | ViewDrop 96-well plate-seals for hanging drop crystallography (25/pack) |
| 4150-05600 | ViewDrop II 96-well plate-seals for setting multiple hanging drops (25/pack) |
RAPid 4®
At the heart of RAPid 4’s sensor technology lies the sensor cassette. This contains two resonating sensors to provide high uniformity and sensitivity. To study an interaction, one of the interaction molecules is chemically immobilised to the sensor surface. Interactions are monitored by flowing the test sample over the coated sensor surface.
TTP LabTech offers a range of sensor cassettes where the crystal surface is processed to introduce a biologically inert chemical layer which allows specific targets to be coupled.
Fundamental to achieving high sample throughput is the ability to perform multiple cycles of an assay on the same sensor. TTP LabTech offers reagent kits to optimise sensor surface regeneration by efficiently removing the bound material from the sensor surface whilst maintaining the activity of the immobilised molecule. Typically, more than 100 assay cycles can be performed using the same sensor surface.