The Instrument is super easy to use. I am using this instrument for more than 5 years related to drug screening. The instrument itself is more than 10 years old and data reproducibility is so good even after a decade and I did not face any glitch or problem in handling this. I trained many grad students, and it is so easy to train them for this instrument.

Review Date: 29 Jan 2026 | BMG LABTECH

Using this equipment for the past 9 years in both academia and pharma has shown me superior performance compared to competitor products. Specifically, the sensitivity of laser-based HTRF assays in comparison to the speed of the measurement is unmatched. Strikingly, the sensitivity of this platereader for tracer-based NanoBRET experiments (using fluorescent tracers for competition with the compound of interest) enabled assays with fantastic z' that were otherwise not possible. The pipetting pumps of the PheraSTAR enable very fast kinetics experiments in a single well mode that were easy to perform because of the user-centric platereader software. The customer care both for the one repair we had in 9 years as well as requirements for custom filters were fulfilled with expertise and excellent timing. I can fully recommend you this platereader for anything from binding kinetics experiments to fast HTS campaigns.

Review Date: 24 Jul 2024 | BMG LABTECH

We are using FSX Pherastar for throughput ELISA crucial in our antibody development pipeline. CV is very low and time of reading is superior to the competitors.

Review Date: 24 Jul 2024 | BMG LABTECH

PheraStar is really easy to use, to assess and define protocol in order to get reproducible data. Also changing the filter units is an easy procedure. In short time 96, 384 and 1536 well plate are readed, with the possibility to define controls or standard units. It is the kind of equipment each lab needs to have.

Review Date: 6 Feb 2024 | BMG LABTECH

The Pherastar system is quick and easy to use for high throughput, and sensitive BRET2 based assay experiments such as TRUPATH and arrestin recruitment.

Review Date: 26 Sept 2023 | BMG LABTECH

I really like the PheraStar plate reader because it’s so easy to adjust the parameters and so easy to visualise the changes in proliferation because of colour coding.

Review Date: 22 Apr 2023 | BMG LABTECH