Introduction:They say "A rising tide lifts all boats" and this is true for advances in automation as applied to various analytical test methods. Have you checked the state of automation capabilities recently? There have been amazing advances in terms of (a) high throughput, (b) error reduction, (c) test organization and (d) value / analyst effort In keeping with the desire of meeting 3R parameters (reduce, reuse, replace the need for using animals) a new solution highlighted from bioMerieux provides advantages that reduce user hands-on-time, cost per test, employs sustainable rFC reagents, and thus eliminates the need of harvesting horseshoe crabs for bleeding.The word "Robot" is said to be drawn from an old Russian word, robota, for "servitude,""forced labor" or "drudgery." In many respects this view holds true, automation does what people do not want to do, however, from another vantage it also does what people are not very good at doing. In performing a task repeatedly (a.k.a. robotically) people tend to become desensitized and somewhat immune to seeing that changes or bad habits have crept into their performance activities. We view this as a "learned" behavior but from a negative vantage it is a learned "shortcut" behavior that may produce a reduction in the quality of the test. In this way robots do not have "feelings", do not get hungry, or tired, and are not besieged by a slew of co-worker related issues. Robots do not lose their place when pipetting samples into a plate and are not "late" in putting a plate into or removing it from an incubation step.The Tecan Fluent? workstation has been paired with the bioMerieux ENDOZYME? II GO pre-coated plates to create a seamless automation solution for endotoxin testing.
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