Anniversary Lottery at Berthold Technologies

A lottery has been established within the anniversary activities to enable customers of Berthold Technologies to participate in the celebrations. Until October 15th 2009 every interested scientist may register on an internet page www.Berthold.com/bio/lottery. After the registration will have been closed in total 3 microplate luminometers CentroPRO will be awarded. On the occasion of Biotechnica exhibition 1 of these instruments will be awarded directly at the Berthold Technologies stand E02 (hall 9). To register, please click on the company article page to the top right of this page.

Berthold Technologies is looking back to 60 years of company history. In the year 1949 Prof. Rudolf Berthold had laid the headstone for the company in the building of a former hotel. In the course of the past 60 years an enterprise with more than 300 employees and 3 business units has evloved. The innovative and high-quality measurement instruments are still developed and manu-factured in Bad Wildbad, Germany, and sold via a worldwide network of affiliates and distributors.

CentroPRO
CentroPRO is the newest member of the microplate luminometer family of Berthold Technologies. The instrument is characterized by

Easy operation via the innovative instrument software ICEware:
wizard guided definition of measurement parameters
various export formats (Excel, Adobe PDF, text)
intuitive menus
High sensitivity due to Single Photon Counting technology and low noise detectors:
less than 20 amol ATP and 7.5 zmol Firefly luciferase respectively
Big dynamic range over 6 decades
Small footprint with a width of only 30 cm
All important glow-type luminescence applications

CentroPRO is a universally applicable luminometer for research and routine use. It enables the measurement of all important glow-type luminescence applications: e.g. reporter genes, dual re-porter genes, ATP, cell viability, caspases, kinases, proteases, monoaminoxidase or Mycoplasma contamination.