The futurehasbegun
Visitors to theLabAutomationSymposiumat Festo’s
TechnologyCentre inEsslingenon30October2014 learned
about current developments inmodern laboratoryauto-
mationandwhat the futureholds. Thesymposium looked
at abroader perspectiveof usingautomation, suchas in
theareasof biomarkers, biobanking, specimenarchiving,
personalisedmedicineand companiondiagnostics. Re-
nowned international expertsspokeabouthowwork,which
is currentlystill carriedout in laboriousmanual processes,
will in futurebestandardisedandperformedwithgreater
efficiencyand reproducibilityusingautomation.
Anumberofexhibitors from thefieldof lifesciencesshowed
how this canalreadybedone inpractice. They included
LGCGenomics,Hettich, ttp labtech, Greiner bio-oneand
GerenTec.
Fast andprecise:
modernhandling
systemsensure theefficient
handlingand reliable transport of
highlysensitivesamplesand fluids.
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trends inautomation
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