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ReviewerMember since: 2022
Organization: Biochemistry Center of the University of Heidelberg
Versatile, easy to use microplate reader with excellent support
Application Area:Teaching basic lab skills student courses
"We needed an affordable, easy to use but versatile microplate reader for our basic lab skills practical courses. This instrument has it all. One star less for ease of use, because we hoped to find an instrument with on-board computer; but a simple laptop fits nicely on the machine and can be set up for any purpose necessary. Support by the company was and continues to be excellent. User-problems are taken serious and answered in a timely, friendly, and very constructive manner."
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ReviewerMember since: 2022
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Easy to use, very user friendly
Application Area:Protein concentration measurement
"Very easy to use. Highly reproducible results."
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ReviewerMember since: 2022
Organization: Uwa
Good results, occasionally get artefact peaks
Application Area:OD measurement of growing bacteria cells
"Easy to use and quite robust. Occasionally get artefact peaks but we'll scan wasn't selected yet"
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ReviewerMember since: 2018
Organization: General hospital Laboratory department Minna Niger S
Great results and accurate
Application Area:Clinical chemistry
"The machine is very accurate and easy to use."
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ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: University of Malta
All-in-one for your UV-Vis spectroscopic needs.
Application Area:Analysis of different plant and animal matrices using several colorimetric methods
"The SPECTROstar Nano is a very versatile UV-Vis spectrophotometer reading within the range of 220 to 1000 nm. This instrument reads several formats, i.e. 10 mm cuvettes, 6, 12, 24, 96 upto 1536 well plates. The instrument can be programmed to read single wavelengths, multiple wavelengths or a range of wavelengths. It has also a shaking/incubation functionality for microplates. The MARS software is very easy to use. Data can be exported as CSV and can be manipulated within a spreadsheet."
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ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: University Of Pisa
I obtained very good results.
Application Area:ELISA, nucleic acid quantifications and spectra analyses
"It is a very nice instrument. It is very easy to use and we can have three different modalities of reading. The software is very complete."
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ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: SPC RT Co., LTD.
It's the fastest machine I've ever seen.
Application Area:Well scanning and DNA qualification
"The SPECTROstar Nano from BMG Labtech always makes me happy when I come to the lab. Particularly when I need to use the well scanning mode. The results you receiveare great with gradients, OD and 3D view. If you are looking for a spectrometer and microplate reader too, SPECTROstar Nano should be your first choice."
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ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: Mothers & Babies Research Centre of the University of Newcastle at Hunter Medical Research Institute
Great instrument that we purchased based on excellent advice from Sylvia Johnson.
Application Area:Protein analyses
"Sylvia Johnson has commissioned our instrument and followed up with checks and upgrade assistance. We have few if any problems but Sylvia is able to solve issues over the phone. She is one of the most effective and efficient people I deal with and has such a degree of knowledge of the product that enables our users to always have a reliable source of knowledge that promises we will remain loyal to BMG and their products."
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ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: University of Wolverhampton
Easy to use and fast turnaround on data -cannot ask for more!
Application Area:Being used by PhD and undergraduate students for microbial growth curves & standard curve generation
"This is a very easy to use piece of equipment and has the benefit of reading microplates and cuvettes. BMG Labtech sent two engineers, one to install the equipment and the next day another to demonstrate the software. The software demonstration was very comprehensive and it was obvious that the engineer knew his topic and the software very thoroughly. All answers were given in an easy to understand way. The software is comprehensive and displays data in an easily formatted way enabling easy understanding and the ability to export straight into excel is a very useful feature. Protocol set up and implementation is easy and from startup to first analysis was merely minutes. The machine itself is robust and appears well suited to a busy laboratory. The ability to analyse both cuvettes and microplates is superb and being able to control the temperature adds another aspect to analysis that is going to prove to be very useful. I would recommend this product."
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ReviewerMember since: 2018
Organization: Volac
Easy to use and compatible with good range of consumables.
Application Area:Microbial growth assays
"Easy to use and compatible with good range of consumables."
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ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: UCSI University
A definite must-have for absorbance-based microplate assays
Application Area:Bacterial growth, antioxidants, protein assays
"Spectrostar Nano is a sweet little unit that has helped in getting my assays protocols set up and done easily and quickly. Its ease of use also extends to the MARS Data Analysis software that comes with the unit. It has really helped me in visualizing my assays result and process that result to make standard curves and many types of calculations easily without the use of Excel."
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ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: British American Tobacco
Is a great instrument very adaptable for all absorbance needs
Application Area:Analyze protein content and enzyme activity from plant extracts
"Really easy to set up new assays or import them from other BMG Labtech equipment, can use both cuvettes and 96 well plates with ease, and adapt the plate reader to nanodrop style too which makes it very adaptable and good value for money. All the adaptations are easy to do and the install engineer talked me through everything. "
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ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: National Virus Reference Laboratory
"Installation was very easy, operation following training and loading of relevant protocols facilitated ease of use. Performance of reader instrument passed all quality criteria"
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ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: Biocolor ltd
Application Area:QC.
"We now have 2 of these machines after a previous long term use of a Sigma reader. 25 years old with original bulb! Easy software and connection to printer and export. Gone are RS232 days! After care excellent and long term demo's, some chance of ex-demo models - waiting list. Some of our protocols are included in BMG'S 'Application notes' circulates in hard and soft copies to the users'. "
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ReviewerMember since: 2014
Organization: BDAS,LLC
Application Area:Scanning abilities became important to us this year - more than ever
"We were awarded a SPECTROStar Nano a few years back and have mainly used it in cuvette mode. That was until we realized we could obtain spectral fingerprints of beverages at very short pathlengths through UV-transparent microplates. Other instruments only take one sample at a time and require pathlength units to be exchanged to get finer level resolution of darker colored products. With the SPECTROStar Nano we are routinely obtaining 96 sample analyses across the full UV-visible spectrum in about five minutes. In addition with other assays we perform, looking at the scan rather than single wavelength values enables us to extract much more information than we could before. This enables more rapid assay development as well as routine testing with established protocols."
Absorbance microplate reader from BMG LABTECH
Ultra-fast, full spectrum absorbance with the SPECTROstar® Nano
Instantly capture full spectra (220-1000 nm in <1 second!) for low volumes, microplates and cuvettes with the SPECTROstar® Nano from BMG LABTECH.
The SPECTROstar® Nano from BMG is a revolutionary microplate reader for absorbance measurements. The flexibility it provides makes it easy to perform low-volume absorbance assays at speeds like no other absorbance-only reader on the market.
Predefined protocols also make it possible to read ELISAs, RNA, DNA, protein, cell growth and more simply at the touch of a button.
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