BRAND Liquid Handling Station – Automated Wiping of Liquid Residues The BRAND Liquid Handling Station (LHS) has a compact design and plug-and-play software to easily automate routine pipetting tasks, enhancing accuracy, precision, and reproducibility. A new feature of the LHS is its new automated tip wiping function, which ensures more reliable results. The ability to…
Enhancing Vacuum Performance on Particle Accelerator Applications
BRANDTECH Scientific recently worked with the Arizona State University Eyring Materials Center Ion Beam Analysis of Materials (IBeAM) lab to support an upgrade to their vacuum equipment. Mark Mangus, Research Specialist Principal at the Eyring Materials Center works with students and industry partners in the IBeAM lab to train them on the use of the…
Enhancing Laboratory Efficiency and Safety with Bottle-top Dispensers
BRAND® Dispensette® S Bottle-top Dispensers, the standard in dispensing for over 50 years. By Amy Hurtado, Marketing Communications Director BRANDTECH Scientific In the fast-paced world of laboratory research, precision, accuracy, and safety are paramount. Every drop of reagent matters and every precaution against exposure to hazardous substances counts. That is where bottle-top dispensers shine, optimizing…
Selecting the Right Roughing Pump for High Vacuum Systems
By Jason Varini, Vacuum Product Manger BRANDTECH Scientific Introduction In the world of analytical instrumentation, achieving and maintaining high- and ultra-high vacuum levels is necessary for producing accurate and reliable results. Instruments such as mass spectrometers, particle accelerators, and electron microscopes often need vacuum conditions as deep at 10-8 mbar or deeper to minimize particles…
Choosing the Right Liquid Handling Tools: Air Displacement vs. Positive Displacement Pipettes
By Amy Hurtado, BRANDTECH Marketing Communications Director In the world of laboratory research, precision and accuracy are priorities, particularly when dealing with micro- to low milliliter volumes. The success of experiments and the reliability of results hinge on the meticulous handling of liquids. A wide range of tools are available. To navigate the variety, it…
Fluid aspiration – safety in the lab
How BVC Fluid Aspiration units increase safety and convenience for your lab. Fluid aspiration is a common application used to remove liquid from one source and collecting it into another container. This application is often used in life science labs for cell culture work removing spent media as well as other supernatants. Cell culture work…
Liquid Handling Accuracy and Precision in the Lab
By Rebecca Lampert, Product Manager at BRANDTECH Scientific Learn how equipment and methods for liquid handling can directly impact lab data validity and repeatability. Many applications in the lab require handling liquids in a variety of volume ranges. Selecting an instrument for a specific application is based the volume being dispensed, the type of liquid…
A Breakthrough in Dry Vacuum Technology
There is a growing demand for purer processes, greater process efficiency, reliability, and sustainability for labs. Vacuum plays a major role in supporting many laboratory applications and vacuum technology needs to addresses these concerns. For quite some time now, VACUUBRAND’s diaphragm pump technology has addressed these challenges down to the approximately 1 mbar pressure range…
Automating an ELISA assay for the characterization of antibody functionality
By Jeaneen Kulp, Jackson ImmunoResearch for BRANDTECH Scientific Introduction Jackson ImmunoResearch saw a need to monitor antibody performance at sequential stages of production. Antibody characterization was previously done using a time consuming, complex and physically demanding method which constrained testing to the final step in the process. This led to the loss of valuable decision-making…
Accuracy, Safety and Convenience for Sample- and Standards-Prep in Analytical Cannabis Laboratories
Analytical cannabis laboratories face a number of challenges in sample preparation. Extraction of samples from varied matrices for testing is tedious and time consuming, and it makes sense to streamline the process wherever possible for highest throughput. When extracting numerous samples, a safe and convenient way is with a BRAND® Dispensette® S bottletop dispenser which…