MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL TAKES DELIVERY ON HUDSON'S RAPIDPICK™ COLONY-PICKING WORKCELL

Scientists at Mass General have recently purchased the RapidPick™, automated colony-picking workcell from Hudson Control Group for use in colony picking and cherry picking applications. This product for the first time ever, will allow researchers at Mass General to not only automate the selection and growth of cells grown on a colony plate, retain a record and image of the specific colony, but also allow them to establish an unbroken data path from original colony to final result.

The RapidPick colony-picking workcell is unique in its completely integrated operation with products like Liconic's STX 40 robotic incubator; which provides complete automation of the entire culture outgrowth process and Hudson's RSH4000™ gas-permeable seal applicator to insure freedom from contamination. The workcell also has an integrated dispenser to apply fresh media to growth plates immediately before inoculation and has the input capacity of 72 deep-well culture plates and a throughput rate of 6000 colonies per hour.

The RapidPick™ also takes advantage of Hudson's PlateCrane EX ® robot loading system and the flexibility of Hudson's Lablinx high-speed and expandable track system that delivers labware to multiple laboratory instruments simultaneously, greatly increasing throughput. It also incorporates a Barcode Scanner for high performance and capacity. No other system that includes colony picking has this level of integration. RapidPick is powered by Hudson Control Group's Softlinx™ software, which makes it easy to interface with other automated instruments for seamless process control. It is modular for flexibility and allows researchers the ability to feed source and destination plates in a compact workcell environment.