Two-minute Inspection Poster for PIPETMAN® L and PIPETMAN®
Regular maintenance and service of your pipette ensures reliable results. Refer to the PIPETMAN Two-Minute Inspection video for a walk through of basic pipette performance evaluation. Good routine maintenance helps prevent costly repairs.
Regular maintenance and service of your pipette ensures reliable results. Refer to the PIPETMAN L Two-Minute Inspection video for a walk through of basic pipette performance evaluation. Good routine maintenance helps prevent costly repairs.
The use of electronic pipettes can help eliminate pipetting errors and user-to-user variation, and greatly improve assay reproducibility.
Find out the recommended way to store, charge, and keep working when your PIPETMAN® M Connected has a low battery by watching this video.
When TRACKMAN® Connected is paired with PIPETMAN® M Connected, the installed PipettePilot® app guides you through your microplate method. The app displays where, when, and how much to pipette with real-time interactions to prevent errors and improve the traceability and reproducibility of your research.
You have seen PIPETMAN® - but never like this. The MyPIPETMAN® design experience offers two layers of customization and personalization, offering you the opportunity to build a unique pipette with the exact look and functions you require. Choose from several functional and design options for a truly unique pipette that fits your specific style.
Solutions that increase workflow efficiency for COVID-19 testing can help diagnostic laboratories improve productivity by increasing sample processing capacity and accuracy. Here we describe a lab's test method and how they have incorporated Gilson liquid handling tools into their workflow to help improve efficiency and increase testing throughput.
Dr. Ed Campbell is a molecular virologist at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine whose research focuses on molecular mechanisms of viral infection and inflammation. Recently, he has taken on a new role as founder of SafeGuard Surveillance, a company running COVID-19 surveillance testing for school districts in the suburban Chicago area.
With so many models available, choosing the right pipettes for your lab will depend on the application. Here's how to choose a pipette for your experiment.
Correctly reading the volume on a pipette depends on multiple factors, including proper pipetting technique. Here are some helpful tips to ensure you're using proper techniques in the lab.
To keep up with today’s molecular testing demands, labs need access to smart and connected liquid handling tools. Here are four key components to consider.
To maintain accuracy and repeatability, you must service and maintain your instruments. Here’s what you should know about pipette replacement parts.
Automating some of the most taxing and repetitive pipetting tasks can help scientists save time and minimize errors in their work.
Here, we describe the five main benefits of using the PipettePilot qPCR/PCR template for your COVID-19 testing, including access to sample information, how the program intuitively guides you through your workflow, and more.
Pipettes are an essential tool in the laboratory, but their importance goes beyond just the simple transfer of liquids. In fact, pipettes are paramount to sample integrity and, therefore, the accuracy, reliability, and reproducibility of your results. A big part of that is upkeep and keeping them free from contaminants – learn more in this article.
This tutorial will show you how to use TRACKMAN Connected and PipettePilot to create a quick and flexible ELISA protocol.
How do you know you’re pipetting the volume you intend? Would you trust the results you’re getting if you didn’t know your pipettes were calibrated properly? Fortunately, there are standards that pipette manufacturers and calibration services follow so that you know you’re pipetting the correct volumes. Read more here.
Even limited adoption of smart technology can dramatically improve a scientist’s research productivity
Here, we discuss SHIELD T3, an organization founded by the University of Illinois to help expand the use of the I-COVID test. We describe their testing method and how Gilson liquid handling products are used to facilitate the workflow.
A higher standard of reproducibility made possible with tools that track pipetting data
Positive-displacement technology, like that used in our MICROMAN® E pipettes, is ideal when working with infectious, viscous, foaming, hot, cold, or volatile liquids because the disposable piston within the capillary piston (CP) tip is in direct contact with the sample. The CP technology thus removes any air cushion inside the pipette and ensures the volume accuracy is not affected by the fluid's properties.
This tutorial will show you how to use PipettePilot to create quick and flexible protocols and processes.
The University of Oxford reduces pipetting time by 75% with Gilson’s TRACKMAN® Connected system. Read more about their workflow and how they use connected tools to make their DNA normalization workflow more efficient.
This glossary of pipetting terms (and the explanations of pipette types and working principles) gives lab technicians a quick, handy overview for reference.
For lab technicians, relieving job stress can be challenging with increased workloads. Here's how to reduce stress in a high-pressure laboratory environment.
Pushing the boundaries of human knowledge comes down to researchers. Here’s why considering a career as a lab technician may be the right choice for you.
Pipette maintenance is an essential part of your analytical method. Here are some of the best practices to keep your pipette working reliably and accurately.
Liquid properties such as viscosity, volatility, surface tension, or temperature can adversely affect the performance of your pipettes by having an impact on the volume of the air cushion inside the pipette. Additionally, air-displacement pipettes run a higher risk cross-contamination with biological samples and carryover of hazardous or radioactive liquids. For these situations, positive-displacement pipettes, such as MICROMAN® E, are a better tool for the job.
Increased demand and the need for consistent results require every lab to deploy automated liquid handling in their workflows. Here’s what to consider.
Pipetting insights and digital records of your protocols are at your fingertips with TRACKMAN® Connected, a tablet with accessories and apps that makes pipetting on microplates faster, with greater traceability and reproducibility.
How to Stay Safe and Comfortable in High-Pressure Lab Environments
Analyzing the use of AttractSPE WAX-PFA cartridges with the Gilson 274 ASPEC Large Volume System to automate the SPE of PFAs from tap water samples.
Since Gilson invented the continuously adjustable variable volume pipette 45 years ago, we have been an industry leader in liquid handling innovation, helping scientists by making lab life easier and being more productive. Gilson sees the next big innovation revolution around advances in the lab enabled by connected, smart devices containing technologies referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). We sat down with Steve DeCabooter, Director of Product Information Platforms at Gilson, to discuss the growing role of the IoT in the laboratory, and how Gilson’s connected pipettes will contribute to this trend and infuse research with greater traceability and verifiability.
For supervisors, choosing a liquid handling platform is a tough decision. Here are some of the key elements to consider before choosing a system for your lab.
In environments requiring higher throughput levels, manual pipetting methods used in sample preparation, transfer, and mixing can sometimes be time-consuming and prone to procedural errors. Consider these automated liquid handling instruments if you need to increase your sampling throughput without compromising accuracy or repeatability.
Discover the differences between OEM and value-added partnerships and the many ways your company can benefit from VAP relationships.
Wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 outbreak detection is helping researchers speed up the identification of population-wide infections. Here’s how.
The quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) has transformed the world of molecular biology methodology by enabling fast, high-throughput detection and quantification of DNA and RNA in real time. PIPETMAX is specifically designed to maximize reproducibility and accuracy in qPCR workflows. Here, we explore three ways that PIPETMAX can help you run more effective and efficient experiments.
We recently sat down with Dr. Chung-Ho Lin from the University of Missouri to discuss his method and how Gilson PIPETMAX® was incorporated into their wastewater surveillance workflow, and how this approach impacts efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Sample contamination is one of the biggest worries when it comes to sample integrity. It can occur at many stages of a laboratory’s operations, from sample collection, to transport, analysis, and storage. In this article, we explore the key drivers of contamination during pipetting, showing how the right tools and pipetting best practices help maximize sample integrity for consistent success.
I-COVID is a rapid saliva-based COVID-19 test developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We had the opportunity to interview Christian Messmacher, Chief Operating Officer of SHIELD T3, about the company, how their I-COVID test is expanding testing, and how he uses Gilson liquid handling tools to help facilitate the testing workflow.
Switching from a manual to an automated process not only enables significantly more effective use of personnel time, but also removes operator error for reproducible results and increases the accuracy and precision of assays. In this article, we delve into the challenges that can arise during this transition and explain how Gilson's solutions and services can ease the process of transferring your manual methods to an automated system.
Not every lab needs a robotic liquid handling solution, but most cannot operate without a pipette. It is between these two scenarios that human-centric automation in the lab is helping overcome the reproducibility crisis.
