CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
February 2021—Tecan has launched the Fluent Mix and Pierce Workstation to provide end-to-end automation for whole blood pipetting in clinical environments.
The Fluent Mix and Pierce 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. The workstation 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.