RE: Misc.
Kari Ohlsen (kohlsen@sunstroke.sdsu.edu)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 19:09:47 -0800
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> From: Dick-van Wassenaar[SMTP:Dick-van.Wassenaar@unilever.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 9:36 AM
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> Subject: Misc.
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>
> Hi,
>
> is there anybody who can give me information on the
> existence of an
> automated device that can:
>
> 'detect and pick up isolated colonies from a plate and which
> can then
> be transferred to another [micro]titerplate?'
>
> Thanks for all information,
>
>
> Dick van Wassenaar
> Unilever Research Vlaardingen Netherlands
>
> dick-van.wassenaar@unilever.com
>
>
I don't know anything about it, but I just say an ad in Nature
Biotechnology about a machine called the BioPick which seems to do what
you want. The company is BioRobotics Limited in Cambridge UK +44
(0)1223 264345.