HydroSpeed™ microplate washer
The HydroSpeed is Tecan’s advanced microplate washer, designed to provide optimized washing of cells, beads and ELISAs in both 96- and 384-well formats.
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We are on our second one. Tecan has told us both times they have no service reps in in the DC area? Are you kidding me. The second just broke. My old Dynex Washers us to last for decades. The customer service is terrible. I will never buy another device from Tecan.
Review Date: 25 Jan 2022 | Tecan
High-Throughput Multi-Well Plate Processing
Tecan Hydrospeed(TM) enables high-throughput processing of 96- and 384- well plates. Overall it's a good apparatus for these tasks with reproducible performance, 4 liquid sources for plate washing and addition of reagents, and decent customization of each step in the protocol. Weaknesses are the large void volumes and reagent waste during the many priming steps.
Review Date: 11 Nov 2015 | Tecan
The HydroSpeed washer enables full control of critical wash parameters, helping to maximize the efficiency of washing for cells, beads and ELISAs in 96- and 384-well format.
Its Cell Protection™ feature offers extra gentle cell washing with adjustable wash power, using drop-wise dispensing to avoid cell detachment. Tunable aspiration parameters, including needle position and vacuum level, help to minimize cell loss. For bead-based assays, the HydroSpeed’s patented design incorporates two powerful rare earth magnets per well for fast, efficient bead setting, complemented by adjustable vacuum level and aspiration position for optimized bead recovery. The Anti-Clogging™ function ensures reliable operation by actively preventing needle clogging – eliminating downtime due to blockages – supported by automatic initiation of wash head rinsing and soaking steps to avoid buffer crystallization. If necessary, easy exchange wash heads allow straightfoward external ultrasonic cleaning.
Real-time growth monitoring of spheroids in round bottom microplates
Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture systems have emerged as promising techniques in the field of cell-based assays, with approaches such as multicellular 3D spheroids (dense cell aggregates mostly comprised of cell lines) gaining widespread attention. Different methods of spheroid generation have been explored, such as magnetic levitation, hanging drop methods, and the use of ultra-low attachment (ULA) round bottom microplates for scaffold-free generation of 3D aggregates independent of solid carriers. Tecan describes the generation of spheroids in Corning 96-well, black, round bottom, ultra-low attachment microplates, and monitoring of spheroid growth in the Spark® Cyto multimode reader using brightfield (BF) and fluorescence (FL) imaging. Discover how the Spark Cyto provides ease of use, multiplexing capabilities, and the possibility of executing an entire workflow on one instrument.
Please note that Spark Cyto is for research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.
Extra Gentle Washing of Weakly Adherent Cells Using Tecan’s HydroSpeed™ Plate Washer with Cell Protection™ Wash Settings
Tecan’s HydroSpeed plate washer offers advanced features for a range of applications including washing of cell-based assays and ELISAs, magnetic bead separation and filter washing via vacuum filtration. This application note describes the outcome of an evaluation study of the HydroSpeed plate washer, using Cell Protection wash settings for extra gentle washing of adherent and weakly adherent cells in 96- and 384-well plate formats.
Fast & Efficient Processing of ELISA Assays Using Tecan’s HydroSpeed™ Plate Washer and Infinite® F50 Absorbance Reader
This application note describes the outcome of a successful evaluation study of Tecan’s HydroSpeed plate washer and Infinite F50 absorbance reader using a HBs Ag assay. This assay is used as an example of a qualitative, one step ‘sandwich’ type enzyme immunoassay for the detection of hepatitis B viral surface antigen (HBs Ag) in human serum or plasma.
Efficient Washing of Magnetic Beads: Using Tecan’s HydroSpeed™ Plate Washer for EMD Millipore’s MILLIPLEX® MAP Human Cytokine/Chemokine Magnetic Bead Panel
This application note describes the outcome of a successful evaluation study of Tecan’s new HydroSpeed plate washer for efficient washing of magnetic beads using EMD Millipore’s MILLIPLEX® MAP Human cytokine/Chemokine Magnetic Bead Panel.
Tecan's HydroSpeed for optimized cell washing, beads and ELISAs.
Watch this interview with Tecan to learn more about the HydroSpeedTM Microplate Washer. This 3-in-1 solution can perform bead assays, ELISAs and cell assays in 96- and 384- formats and has interchangeable trays, allowing magnetic bead based assay capabilities and vacuum filtration. A new cell protection function also reduces cell disruption during washing. SelectScience.tv interview at LabAutomation 2011.
