MERIDEN, Conn., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Packard BioScience Company (Nasdaq: PBSC - news) today announced the European launch of its SpotArray(TM) Enterprise non-contact microarray production system. The system will be on display at the EuroBiochips Microarray and Microfluidic Technology Congress in Munich, Germany.
The SpotArray Enterprise employs Packard's patented piezoelectric dispensing technology to provide high quality, high yield biochip manufacturing capabilities. Equipped with a unique integrated dispense verification and error correction feature, the system routinely achieves over 99% accuracy and reliability in producing microarrays. It also recovers precious non-dispensed sample and is compatible with a wide-range of samples (cDNA, oligos, proteins, peptides, etc.) and substrates (glass slides, microplates, membranes, custom chips).
``The Enterprise system is the natural progression of PiezoTipnology(TM), our non-contact printing technology which has been successfully integrated in our first generation BioChip Arrayer(TM) research system,'' said Dr. Jocelyn Burke, Vice President and General Manager of Packard BioChip Technologies, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Packard BioScience Company. ``We believe non-contact dispensing provides new opportunities to customers who produce microarrays because it is capable of creating a variety of microarrays in a quality controlled environment. This system targets companies and academic core facilities interested in producing high volume, high quality content biochips for proteomic and genomic applications. It also complements our family of products, which includes the recently introduced SpotArray(TM) 24 pin tool system for low to medium microarray production. With our three printing systems, as well as our ScanArray(TM) imaging system and QuantArray® analysis software, we now offer a uniquely comprehensive line of instrumentation for the microarray community.'' |
