Product/Service

Plate Reader

Source: PerkinElmer Life Sciences
Wallac ViewLux is a new plate reader for high throughput screening and drug discovery that accepts any object with

Wallac ViewLux is a new plate reader for high throughput screening and drug discovery that accepts any object with a microplate footprint, and allows measurement of five major non-radioactive technologies.

The instrument can measure and analyze a 1,536-well plate in less than half a minute, supporting both robot loading and batch- mode operation. Sample transport is provided by one or two robot loading trays or 32-position stackers. The detector is a Peltier-cooled CCD camera coupled to an optimized telecentric optical lens. For epi-fluorescence excitation there is an extremely powerful array of flash-lamps together with high-quality optics. This provides for high sensitivity measurement of light from prompt fluorescence, time-resolved fluorescence, luminescence and absorbance assays. The facility to detect time-resolved fluorescence makes ViewLux an ideal tool in laboratories using, or wishing to switch to high sensitivity Delfia or Lance assays.

PerkinElmer Life Sciences, 9238 Gaither Rd., Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Tel: 301-963-3200. Fax: 301-869-5806.