SPT Labtech’s innovative mosquito positive displacement pipetting solutions leverage the benefits of miniaturization and automation to reduce expenses, increase productivity, and maximize research output.
High performance at a fraction of the cost
The mosquito’s unique nanolitre liquid handling technology enables users to perform “traditional” liquid handling tasks at a fraction of the volume and faster. Positive displacement, disposable micropipettes are used to manage small quantities of liquid in plate-to-plate or intra-plate transfers by contact dispensing.
Instead of an air gap or system liquid, each mosquito’s disposable micropipette has its own independent piston for real positive displacement pipetting.
mosquito in the lab
After testing several robots from different companies, we recently decided to buy a second instrument, since the first one was our main work horse and the favorite of all users. It is easy to calibrate and to adjust according to the wishes of the users."
Gabriele Rummel, Novartis AG
The mosquito is wonderful, very easy to use once it is set up and calibrated correctly. I've been using it to dispense small volumes into 384 well plates - so happy not to do it by hand!"
Hayley Bennett, Genentech
The Mosquito transferred our ability to set up protein crystallization screens. The work of a day can be done in minutes."
David Egan, Core Life Analytics
Crystallography
Automate protein crystallization screening
Automated protein crystallization screening methods are unleashing the potential of crystallography-based structural biology by enabling rapid, dependable, and reproducible crystallization screen transfers.
mosquito Xtal3
Rapid and efficient protein crystal screening
In crystallization drop setup, the mosquito Xtal3 combines speed, accuracy, and performance. The equipment allows researchers to use lower volumes of precious protein samples without chance of contamination, as well as automate popular protein crystallization screening processes to speed up research.
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mosquito LCP
Accurate, reproducible automation for liquid cubic phase (LCP) setups
The use of mosquito LCP for membrane protein crystallization provides precise, repeatable automation of liquid cubic phase (LCP) setups. The revolutionary positive displacement technology solves the typical issue of accurately dispensing excessively viscous LCP materials. Automated syringe and pipette positioning calibration guarantees perfect drop-on-drop placement for convenient automated imaging.
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mosquito crystal
Fast, accurate, and precise pipetting for protein crystallography
The mosquito crystal combines nanolitre volume pipetting speed, accuracy, and great precision with zero cross-contamination from a disposable tip. Volumes as low as 10 nL on multi-aspirate enable researchers to make the most of valuable protein samples while benefiting from the flexibility to change procedures quickly.
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Expand the performance of mosquito
Software that is intuitive by design
The liquid handling software that powers the mosquito family of instruments offers consumers a simple, personalized experience based on their application area.
The most recent mosquito software, created in collaboration with scientists, allows miniaturization in novel application areas. The software features an experiment designer and helpful wizards to assist users in creating and managing their protocols.
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Accessories
The mosquito range comes with a variety of accessories. A humidity chamber, cooling block, LCP mixer, and other accessories are included. Each accessory is designed to improve the mosquito’s performance.
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