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Integra Assist Plus Pipetting Workstation: Redefining Efficient and Precise Liquid Handling Experience

In modern life sciences, drug discovery, and clinical diagnostics, the accuracy, reproducibility, and efficiency of liquid handling are paramount. To address the growing challenges in high-throughput screening, sample preparation, genomics, and other applications, the Integra Assist Plus Pipetting Workstation, an intelligent assisted pipetting system developed by Switzerland's Integra, strikes an ideal balance between tedious manual operations and fully automated large-scale robotics. It does not replace the scientist but serves as a tireless and precise "lab assistant," significantly enhancing experimental quality and workflow efficiency.

Core Advantages: Precision, Efficiency, and User-Friendliness

The core design philosophy of the Integra Assist Plus is "intelligent assistance and simplified operation." It skillfully integrates Integra's proven VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing electronic pipette with an intelligent robotic platform, enabling seamless operation from programming to liquid dispensing.

1. Exceptional Precision and Reproducibility:

   • The system employs high-precision electronic pipettes with a volume range covering microliters (μL) to milliliters (mL), ensuring high accuracy and precision whether dispensing minute reagents or larger media volumes.

   • Fully automated operation eliminates human error introduced by differences between users or individual states, guaranteeing exceptional result reproducibility and providing a solid foundation for data reliability.

2. Unprecedented Operational Efficiency:

   • One-Touch Standardization of Complex Protocols: Users need only perform the manual operation once (in teaching mode). The system records all steps (including volumes, source/destination positions, tip spacing adjustments, mixing cycles, etc.) via its intuitive touchscreen interface and can accurately replicate the entire process indefinitely.

   • High-Throughput Processing Capability: Equipped with a versatile deck that accommodates various labware such as microplates, tube racks, and deep-well plates, it easily handles large-scale tasks like sample distribution across 96- or 384-well plates, serial dilution, and PCR reaction setup, freeing researchers from repetitive tasks.

3. Ultimate User-Friendliness and Flexibility:

   • Intuitive Graphical Interface: Features a large color touchscreen with simple, logical programming, allowing lab personnel to get started quickly without complex computer programming knowledge.

   • Great Flexibility: Unlike closed, fully automated liquid handling systems, the Assist Plus allows users to intervene at any time, flexibly adjust protocols, or change consumables, perfectly adapting to the evolving needs of the R&D phase.

   • Sterility and Safety: An optional HEPA filter module creates a Class A clean air curtain within the work area, effectively protecting sensitive cells or valuable samples from contamination, while also providing biosafety protection for the operator.

Typical Applications

• Nucleic Acid Extraction and PCR Setup: Efficiently and accurately adding nucleic acids, dispensing primers/probes, and assembling master mixes for numerous samples.

• Cell Culture and Seeding: Enabling rapid and uniform dispensing of cell suspensions to ensure consistency in cell-based assays.

• Compound Screening and Dilution: Automating serial dilution of compound libraries to accelerate drug discovery pipelines.

• Library preparation for ELISA, NGS, etc.: Standardizing complex, multi-step protocols to reduce human error and improve data quality.

Summary

The Integra Assist Plus Pipetting Workstation is more than just an instrument; it is an intelligent workflow solution. With its exceptional precision, significant efficiency gains, and user-centric design, it is a key tool for enhancing laboratory standardization and core competitiveness. Whether for academic research labs pursuing data rigor or industrial applications prioritizing efficiency and reproducibility, the Assist Plus is the ideal choice for upgrading from manual operations to an intelligent, standardized workflow, empowering scientists to focus more on data analysis and scientific discovery.