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The benefits of automating colony picking

Manually picking colonies can be time-consuming and inefficient, not to mention boring! When colony picking becomes the bottleneck in your lab’s research, it’s probably time to consider an automated colony picker. However, throughput alone is not the only benefit of an automated colony picker. Reduce human error Hold off getting more students in to hand-pick […]

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Automating MALDI-TOF sample preparation protocols to facilitate bacterial identification.

Michael D. Nairn¹, Philip Kirk², Matthew E. Openshaw¹, Oliver Severn², Leah Ashley² 1, Shimadzu, Manchester, UK; 2, Singer Instruments, Roadwater, UK Abstract Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) is a mass spectrometry (MS) that characterises various intact biomolecules. In microbiology, MALDI-TOF aids pathogen detection and microbial profiling by identifying bacteria to the species level. However, […]

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Your guide to colony picking like a pro

When microbes are cultured in the lab (often yeast or bacteria), the cells grow, divide and mutate in response to their environment. Researchers use colony picking as a means to sift through this microbial soup to identify colonies of interest based on observable characteristics (phenotype). So whether you’re trying to pinpoint the next blockbuster drug […]