Jan. 22, 2021—Tecan has launched the Fluent Mix and Pierce Workstation to provide end-to-end automation for whole blood pipetting in clinical environments. The workstation uses a Flexible Channel Arm equipped with Tecan Piercing Tips to aliquot whole blood samples directly from vacuum blood collection tubes or septum-capped tubes and features the Tecan Tube Rotator, which provides 360-degree tube mixing to maintain whole blood samples in suspension without hemolysis and includes barcode scanning for primary and secondary tubes.
This newly developed instrument configuration is intended to standardize preanalytical sample handling and mixing, the company says, and is part of an ongoing collaboration with Qiagen to optimize sample preparation for latent tuberculosis testing with the QuantiFeron-TB Gold Plus assay.
“Our vision at Tecan is to empower every laboratory, every day, around the world, and we are delighted to collaborate with Qiagen, a global leader in the important area of modern latent TB detection, to help even more labs to increase productivity and reduce processing errors through automation of tedious manual steps,” Dr. Klaus Lun, EVP and head of the life sciences business division at Tecan, said in a press release.