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Pipettes play a crucial role in laboratory work and they are essential for accurately delivering samples and reagents across a wide range of experiments. Laboratories are facing increasing pressure to increase throughput, which has led to greater demand for pipettes that can facilitate more efficient workflows. In the modern connected laboratory, pipette connectivity is fundamental. It enables seamless integration of pipetting data with other laboratory systems, The Sartorius Picus® 2 electronic pipette is a game-changer for pipetting with its flexible connectivity and effortless operation.

Choosing the right pipettes and pipette tips can be a daunting task, as there are many factors to consider. In this guide, we will provide an overview of pipetting best practices and share top tips for reducing contamination and error. After reading this eBook, you will be able to confidently select the most optimal pipetting technology and consumables for your application.

This guide will also explain:

• How to master sample preparation
• How to improve accuracy in serial dilutions
• Ways to prevent pipetting errors
• Top tips for avoiding contamination

To remain competitive in the medical device market, manufacturers need to be able to offer innovative, high-quality, safe, and effective devices for patients whilst meeting strict standards and regulations. On top of this, manufacturing demands constant insight into renewable resources, sustainable materials, equipment that is more energy efficient, and methods to reduce waste.

This eBook provides an overview of medical device quality control and manufacturing solutions for the entire development and production process to help fulfill biocompatibility, cleanliness, safety, and packaging standards.

This expert guide will also outline:

• Compliant lab weighing and pipetting
• The importance of ultrapure water
• Reducing the risk of endotoxin contamination
• Viable air monitoring in sterile production environments
• Live-cell imaging for cytotoxicity evaluation
• More efficient lateral flow assay development
• Streamlined measurement of product attributes during biotherapeutic development

Pipetting is a prevalent lab activity that constitutes a large portion of bench time. As such, it plays an important role in assay performance and the well-being of laboratory workers. As assays and applications become more sensitive with continually decreasing reaction volumes, small pipetting errors have an outsized impact on data quality. In this application note, learn about how combining ergonomic solutions with proper pipetting techniques improves both the reliability of results and the health of technicians by minimizing errors caused by fatigue and the risk of work-related upper limb disorders like repetitive strain injuries (RSIs).

Ergonomic pipettes have been proven to reduce pipetting error in long pipetting series. The ergonomic benefits go even further with an electronic pipette that has fully electronic operations and eliminates most of the physical work required for pipetting. This application note is a follow-up to previous findings (Teye, 2018) and provides new data to show that pipetting with a fully electronic and ergonomic pipette produces highly reproducible results, even in long periods of use.

Today’s laboratory consumables business is largely driven by price, and pipette tips are no exception. This application note from Sartorius aims to compare the pipetting performance (systematic and random error) of both mechanical and electronic pipettes using different pipette tips.

This application compendium pulls together everything you need to ensure successful cell culture in your lab, including a range of compatible products and guides on how to use them most effectively. The downloadable eBook presents top expert tips to ensure consistency and reproducibility in your results and highlights examples of effective cell culture preparation steps, experimental protocols, and subsequent analysis.

Patient and consumer safety is a critical factor during manufacturing of your products. In addition, false test results in product quality testing can lead to unnecessary scrapping of batches and product recalls. Good pipetting practices using filtered and pure pipette tips help ensure contamination-free pipetting to prevent contamination during sample preparation, ensuring true test results and patient and consumer safety.

The advancement of cellular therapeutics requires complex biological approaches, making it important to confirm cellular viability and identity, product consistency, efficacy/potency and, critically, microbiological safety of released products. However, with growth-based quality control (QC) releases accounting for long time periods, identifying and reducing potential sources of contamination at all stages of the development workflow for advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) is essential. These steps are critical to ensuring product compliance and patient safety.

In this application-based eBook, we look at quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) applications for microbial detection and show how cutting-edge technologies, such as the Microsart® microbial detection kits from Sartorius, help to deliver smarter tools for microbiological quality control, including:

• Microbial detection procedures and technologies
• Quantitative analysis using PCR-based applications and next-generation sequencing
• Avoiding contamination with reliable pipetting techniques
• Increased accuracy with rapid detect microbial detection kits and guidelines.

Preventing contamination in pipetting is paramount to achieving reliable experimental results. This white paper addresses potential sources of contamination in pipetting and practical solutions to avoiding them.

Widely used in laboratories of all kinds, mechanical pipettes are long-lasting tools. Because they are used for several hours a day, ergonomics and personal preferences - such as handling comfort – are important selection criteria. Other factors such as the application, laboratory workflow, required volume ranges, physical properties of the sample, and requirements for accuracy and precision also need to be considered when searching for the right pipette for the job.

In this video, Sartorius presents Tacta Mechanical Pipettes. Tacta is a premium mechanical pipette with superb comfort and reliability. It feels great in your hand and is easy and comfortable to use. All of the materials used for Tacta have been carefully selected and each component is designed to meet the highest standards. Tacta makes pipetting effortless and safe, while producing accurate and reliable results time after time.

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