Maxwell 16 Research System from Promega

The downstream processing of numerous clinical samples for the isolation of DNA, RNA, and protein has become a more frequent requirement of our lab research endeavor. As such, the ever-increasing need for an efficient throughput design to address the overall workflow has dictated that appropriate nucleic acid purification processes be considered. We routinely have blocked a particular time of the day as a dedicated period to manually process incoming samples for nucleic acid material and protein of interest; time devoted to the manual processing endeavor is time away from other critical laboratory research interests. Promega has developed the Maxwell® 16 Research System as a high throughput, and opportunity cost solution to address the efficiency demands of the research laboratory. The System can accommodate up to 16 samples simultaneously and, depending upon the choice of purification kit needed (genomic DNA, total RNA, total nucleic acid, protein), can process to purity in under an hour. The instrument eliminates reagent preparation, pipetting and centrifugation steps as part of the workflow. Also available from Promega are Maxwell® 16 for Clinical Labs and the Maxwell® 16 for Forensic Labs.