Dec. 6, 2024—Qiagen announced it has reached a milestone of having more than 1,000 placements of the EZ2 Connect automated sample preparation instrument. Launched in 2021, the EZ2 Connect is designed to automate the entire process of nucleic acid purification, reducing hands-on time and increasing throughput while maintaining high precision and reproducibility. The company says the system is particularly beneficial for laboratories handling medium volumes of samples for use across a range of downstream molecular biology research applications, such as digital PCR and next-generation sequencing.
“Achieving over 1,000 placements of the EZ2 Connect highlights the trust our customers place in Qiagen’s automation portfolio to drive their laboratory operations,” Nitin Sood, senior vice president, head of the life sciences business area at Qiagen, said in a press statement. “We are committed to providing advanced automation that reduces manual tasks and gives researchers more time for analyses. With a comprehensive consumables portfolio, we are supporting researchers in various application areas.”
The company recently launched the EZ2 PowerFecal Pro DNA/RNA kit. The kit enables the isolation of microbial DNA, RNA, or total nucleic acids from stool samples and has a maximum hands-on time of 27 minutes.