IV. Dried Blood Spot (DBS) Tools

• Card Drying Rack

Card Drying Rack (HS4010)

Drying Rack can hold standard Whatman/GE or Ahlstrom DBS cards. It is capable of storing 100 DBS cards. Each card can be easily identified and retrieved for further sample processing. This unit is small, compact and portable. It has a sturdy base and is rotatable with a top handle.

100-card rack dimensions - Height: 15"; Diameter: 6" (without cards)

• Horizon Specialty 100 Card Drying Rack (HS4010)

$185.00 (USD)

WARRANTY

• Semi-Automated Puncher

Semi-Automated Puncher (HS4020)

The Semi-Automated Puncher is an inexpensive, easy to use, and rechargeable tool - the perfect solution to fill in the gap between the expensive automated punchers and the manual punchers commercially available on the market. It does not require either a large initial capital equipment cost or long term maintenance expenses, yet still increases DBS productivity while relieving the discomfort and fatigue associated with repetitive manual punching operations.

• Horizon Specialty Semi-Automated Puncher (HS4020)

$160.00 (USD)

WARRANTY

The personal puncher includes a battery operated driver and interchangeable attachment. It is easy and quick to change the various diameter core attachments (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8mm) via a screw.

• EZ View Microplate Stand/Column and Row Indexer

EZ View Microplate Stand (HS2020) and Microplate Column and Row Indexer (HS2060) - can be utilized for quickly locating and ejecting bored disc into a specific well without any error.

• EZ DBS Tips

EZ DBS Tips (HS4030) - A ¼" diameter disc precut from commercial DBS cards is inserted inside a Tomtec tip. By utilizing a rack of these 96 Tomtec tips (containing DBS disc) sample preparation and analysis can be performed in an efficient and productive way since it:

(1). does not need to punch DBS cards.
(2). generates more data points while cutting down the cost of expensive DBS cards.
(3). undergoes more organized work flow.
(4). is ready for solute elution by taking the benefits of Tomtec Quadra 96 workstation.
(5). reduces the matrix effect by washing away additives of some treated cards.
(6). may improve the recovery by multi-time elution.

• Robotic DBS Racks

Robotic DBS Racks (HS4040) - We can design and make four customized racks so that your robotic liquid handling system can spot QC and animal/human blood samples onto 24 individual DBS cards.

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