Editing BioMicroCenter:News2010 (section)

====New equipment====
A number of pieces of new equipment have been added to the BioMicro Center, particularly in the area of high throughput screening. First, through an equipment grant sponsored by Wendy Gilbert, we have added a second robotic fluidics machine that is specifically geared for screening 96 and 384 well plates.  Unlike the older robot, this [[BioMicroCenter:Tecan_Freedom_Evo|Tecan]] has a plate manipulating arm that allows it to handle much larger experiments. We also have added the [[BioMicroCenter:RTPCR|Fluidigm Biomark]] which has been relocated from E17 and we are also in the evaluation phase for the [[BioMicroCenter:Nanostring|Nanostring nCounter]]. Both of these machines allow you to look at a large number of genes / SNPs across a large number of samples. The [[BioMicroCenter:RTPCR|Biomark]] is a nanofluidic RT-PCR machine that creates large matrices (either 48x48 or 96x96) of samples and primers, allowing you to do close to 10,000 RT-PCR reactions on a plate. The [[BioMicroCenter:Nanostring|nCounter]] uses a [[BioMicroCenter:Nanostring|“code set”]] of up to 800 genes to hybridize to dozens or hundreds of samples, then visualizes the single molecule interactions. The [[BioMicroCenter:Nanostring|nCounter]] is particularly interesting in that it does not require conversion of the sample to cDNA, or even purification of the RNA. Information about all of these instruments can be found on our website.