New Multi-Mode Microplate Reader for Academia and Biotech Laboratories
Summary
SAN JOSE, CA — Molecular Devices, LLC., a leading provider of high-performance life science solutions and a company of Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR), has launched its SpectraMax® Mini Multi-Mode Microplate Reader, a compact and economical solution designed to save researchers benchtop space and budget. Built on the company’s nearly four decades of experience delivering high-performance microplate reader technology to the market, the SpectraMax Mini reader is robust enough to meet a lab’s core microplate reader needs, while its compact size is ideal for integration into a large workstation with multiple instruments. “We created the SpectraMax Mini reader for budget-conscious labs in need of a versatile, high-performing multi-mode solution,” said Susan Murphy, president of Molecular Devices. “The new reader joins our extensive SpectraMax line of user-friendly microplate readers—the industry’s most cited brand—to help scientists from academic labs to fast-paced biotechnology organizations advance their research.” The user-upgradeable SpectraMax Mini reader features up to three modes of detection for UV-Visible absorbance, fluorescence, and luminescence, allowing for key applications like reporter gene expression, ELISA, DNA and protein quantitation, cell viability, and more. • Flexibility — Accommodates various plate types from six- to 384-well formats and is user upgradeable from two to three modes of detection • Extended wavelength range — Xenon flash lamp allows measurement of fluorescence from 250 to 850 nm—unlike halogen lamps —for a wider range of applications such as tryptophan assays • Ease of use — Approachable design with plug-and-play filter cubes for measuring fluorescence and luminescence, alleviating the need to input excitation and emission wavelengths manually • Superior software — Includes the world’s most published microplate reader control and data analysis software, SoftMax Pro Software, complete with time-saving, pre-written protocols for commonly used applications