The microplate has evolved over the past 60 years into an indispensable piece of equipment used in many labs today. In 2007, HTStec estimated market growth of microplate instruments at about 6 percent ...

In August, The Scientist conducted a brief survey of our readers to identify product trends and developments in microplate technology. More than 370 life-science researchers told us how they use ...

Leading microplate technology specialists - Porvair Sciences has expanded its range of high integrity heat sealing films. Choosing the correct combination of seal and closure device for different ...

Time plays a key role in sequencing. In brief, sequencing scientists want results as soon as possible, as long as the results remain accurate. With next-generation sequencing (NGS), microplate ...

Microplate formats underpin nearly every high-throughput screening (HTS) workflow, influencing assay design, data quality, and overall screening throughput. As laboratories scale biochemical, ...

New Tools Bridge Gap between Single and Multiple Sample Absorbance Instruments For generations after Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen deduced that almost all molecules in nature absorb and emit ...

Scientists who use live cell imaging to count adherent cells cultured in microplate wells must label the cells or cellular substructures with fluorescent dyes. However, these labeling processes are ...

Choosing the correct combination of seal and closure device for different types of microplate is important to achieving good laboratory practice and to avoid unnecessary work further downstream.