Press Releases
March 6th, 2013
Aurora Instruments to Launch New VERSA 10 Automated Nucleic Acid Purification Workstation at Pittcon 2013
Aurora Instruments is proud to announce the launch of their newest robot, the VERSA 10 Nucleic Acid Purification (NAP) Workstation at the 2013 Pittcon. This compact, automated liquid handling workstation is an ideal, cost-effective solution for labs carrying out magnetic bead-based nucleic acid preparation and PCR plate setups. Read More about Aurora at Pittcon 2013.
March 6th, 2013
Aurora Instruments to Launch New VERSA 1100 Automated Solid Phase Extraction Workstation at Pittcon 2013
Aurora Instruments is excited to announce the launch of the new VERSA 1100 Automated Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) Workstation at Pittcon 2013. This workstation removes the bottleneck of time-consuming manual extraction protocols, by completing sample preparation, column conditioning, washing and elution, analyte concentration and solvent exchange steps. Extractions can be carried out with either positive pressure or vacuum using 1, 3 and 6 mL columns as well as 96-well extraction plates. Read More about Aurora at Pittcon 2013.
October 15, 2012
Aurora Instruments to exhibit at Analytica China
Vancouver, Canada; October 2012 -- Aurora Instruments, an instrument solutions provider for elemental analysis and life sciences, is pleased to announce their attendance at Analytica China held October 16th - 18th 2012 in Shanghai, China. This international trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis, biotechnology and diagnostics is being held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center and is expected to draw large crowds to see the latest instruments, analysis and testing technologies and lab technology solutions. Read More about Aurora at Analytica China.
April 12, 2012
Bridging the gap between cost and throughput - Aurora Instruments launches a compact liquid handling system for genomics applications
Aurora Instruments Ltd., a world leader in lab automation solutions, will showcase the new VERSA™ 10 Automated Liquid Handling Workstation at Analytica (hall A1, stand 225) in Germany. The VERSA 10 has been developed to simplify laborious routine protocols by combining automated multi-channel dispensing (4 or 8 channels), with single-channel, cherry-picking functionality. Read more about the VERSA™ 10 Automated Liquid Handling Workstation
February 14, 2012
Ion Channel Consortium for Ion Channel Drug Discovery formed by Aurora, Alion Pharmaceuticals and Specs
Aurora Instruments is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Alion Pharmaceuticals and Specs to form a new Ion Channel Consortium that will provide a novel, comprehensive solution for ion channel drug discovery. Together, the three companies will offer value added identification and validation of ion channel modulators. Read more about the Ion Channel Consortium ...
October 28, 2010
Next Generation Library Sequencing using VERSA™ Next Generation Library Prep (NGLP) workstation
Aurora recognizes that automating this manual process maximizes the benefits offered by next generation sequencing (NGS), and thus have developed the VERSA Next Generation Library Prep workstation. Read more about VERSA Next Generation Library Prep workstation...
August 27, 2010
Liquid Liquid Extraction of Vitamin D using VERSA™ LLE Workstation
Aurora’s VERSA™ LLE Workstation has been validated for the organic solvent extraction of 25(OH)D from blood serum using liquid-liquid extraction (partition chromatography). Read more about Vitamin D isolation...
November 27, 2009
Aurora’s VERSA™ Cap Piercing Workstation Efficiently Performs Closed Tube Sampling
Aurora is pleased to announce the launch of its new VERSA™ Cap Piercing Workstation. This fully automated, multi-tasking robotic system is programmed to perform closed tube sampling (CTS), automate sample transfer. Read more about closed tube sampling...
November 12, 2009
Introducing the VERSA Vial Filling Workstation
Aurora is pleased to announce the launch of our VERSA Vial Filling Workstation. The VERSA Vial Filling workstation is a compact, fully automated robotic system capable of consistently dispensing accurate volumes. Read more about the VERSA Vial Filling Workstation...