VITROBOT™ MARK 4

[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, July 27]
Maastricht’s celebrated Vitrobot™ (see issues 38 and 140) is going to present its next generation Mark 4 on the American market at Fort Lauderdale on August 6. The next generation Vitrobot™ Mark 4 is a fully automated vitrification device for the plunge freezing of aqueous colloidal suspensions. It meets the demands of modern science. Its newly designed touch-screen user interface is robust and easy to use and its robotics guarantee high quality, reproducible sample freezing and a high sample throughput. Its controlled-environment key technology prevents cooling concentration artifacts that are inevitable in other open space freezing methods. The transfer from the vitrification medium into the liquid nitrogen atmosphere has been automated thereby ensuring an even more consistent and high yield sample output.

You can read about its development in the Meuse-Rhine journal’s earlier articles, suffice it to say that it is now doing very well on the international market at major universities and the company is looking forward to the 1000th Vitro robot.
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