SHIMADZU has announced the release of its MultiNA Microchip Electrophoresis System.
For the life science laboratory Shimadzu’s MultiNA Microchip Electrophoresis System provides for fully-automated DNA/RNA size confirmation & quantitation.
With its very low cost per sample, Shimadzu claims the MultiNA system provides for the first time a cost effective automated instrument for the analysis of single or multiplexed PCR products, restriction digests and synthetic oligonucleotides.
Another common application is purity checks for extracted RNA, and experiments have shown the instruments capability to analyse more than 48 RNA samples unattended without degradation.
Shimadzu says reusable microchips achieve very low running costs for consumables per analysis equivalent to agarose gels.
The MultiNA System features automatic flexible operation from 1 to 96 samples in MTP plates or strips at high speed without reagent wastage.
Four microchips can be installed for parallel processing, including pre-treatment of samples and microchips, resulting in an analysis speed of 80 secs unattended.
Equipped with a LED-excited fluorescence detector, Shimadzu claims the system is 10x more sensitive than ethidium bromide.
The MultiNA System features High Resolution and reproducibility due to simultaneous electrophoresis of internal marker ease of Use enhanced by sophisticated but simple software operation.