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news.Invitrogen, a division of Life Technologies, has introduced the BenchPro 4100 Western processing device, a bench-top tool developed to automate processing of routine washing and incubation steps for standard laboratory procedures.
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According to Life Technologies, this device simplifies protein analysis workflows by automating Western blotting; a laboratory technique used in a variety of life science research applications, including studies of antibodies and biological pathways.
Designed with Western blotting in mind, the BenchPro 4100 Western processing device automates the hands-on, three-hour process of this technique.
The new device is part of a workflow that includes the BenchPro 4100 Card Processing Station and the BenchPro 4100 Western Cards. The cards hold the Western blot membrane to be analyzed by the card processing station.
According to the company, the single-use, disposable cards negate experimental cross-contamination. Use of the cards practically eliminates clean-up, and hands-on work while maintaining the quality of experimental results. The card-processing station is programmable to enable various Western processing protocols and can process up to four samples in parallel with a variety of reagent combinations.
Evangeline Gonzalez, head of market development for Invitrogen molecular biology reagents, said: The BenchPro 4100 device expands our portfolio of protein expression isolation and analysis solutions, which aim to free scientists from much of the manual work involved in many different protein analysis applications.
The combination of the BenchPro 4100 and iBlot Dry Blotting devices saves researchers valuable time, minimizes operator errors, and increases consistency of results.