mosquito® crystal
mosquito crystal helps scientists to automate and streamline liquid handling workflows in protein crystallography drop setting and beyond while enhancing research quality and productivity.
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It's a good instrument with very good services
Structural Biology
Helpful in setting up crystallization in no time.
Review Date: 26 Nov 2024 | SPT Labtech
Ease of setting of crystal screen
Protein Biochemistry
Very valuable product... yielding results in a quick time. Helps the setting of crystal screen at ease.
Review Date: 22 Nov 2024 | SPT Labtech
Good
Hanging drop and sitting drop for protein crystallization
It's working well and really saves time when setting up crystallization screen.
Review Date: 22 Nov 2024 | SPT Labtech
Service is excellent
Genomics and crystallization
Excellent service delivery and maintenance by the support team. It’s a rugged instrument and rarely gives faults.
Review Date: 22 Nov 2024 | SPT Labtech
Very precise performance
Crystallization
A very fast and accurate dispensing machine of small volumes.
Review Date: 21 Nov 2024 | SPT Labtech
Accuracy, durability and reliability
Protein crystallization
This instrument is a high-precision instrument designed for setting crystallization. It has good performance, and usability and the software is also user-friendly and reliable.
Review Date: 21 Nov 2024 | SPT Labtech
Sophisticated instrument
Protein crystallization
A sophisticated instrument with multiple uses. Numerous screens can be setup at a time. The software is very user-friendly.
Review Date: 21 Nov 2024 | SPT Labtech
Must for high throughput optimisation and screening for crystallisation
Protein crystallography
An easy-to-use machine that cuts down a major chunk of work during optimization for crystallization conditions. Low sample volume requirements and precise pipetting make it indispensable for macromolecular crystallography.
Review Date: 21 Nov 2024 | SPT Labtech
Mosquito is an extremely precise instrument and completely recommended for protein crystallization.
Protein crystallization
Mosquito has been useful for our important experiments. The precision with which mosquito works is unmatched. The after sales care provided by the company has been the biggest help.
Review Date: 20 Nov 2024 | SPT Labtech
Longest lasting robot without major downtime.
Crystallization in largest xray unit in industry
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. There is no maintenance to be done after using it which is an advantage in an Open Access lab. It is easy to calibrate and to adjust according to the wishes of the users.
Review Date: 13 Jun 2019 | SPT Labtech
mosquito® crystal is the protein crystallographer’s favourite liquid handler! It makes protein crystallization screening faster, more cost-effective and quite simply easier than ever before. It brings together speed, accuracy and high precision pipetting of nanolitre volumes with zero cross-contamination from a disposable tip. These automated liquid handling features have multiple benefits in the field of protein crystallography.
mosquito crystal offers:
- flexible automation – rapid automated plate set-up for all standard crystallization techniques: sitting drop, hanging drop, microbatch (under-oil), bicelles, seeding and additive screening.
- accuracy and precision – extremely accurate and precise pipetting in the 25 nL – 1,200 nL range
- unrivalled reproducibility – every day, year-on-year, across a wide range of viscosities, access down to 10 nL on multi-aspirate
- zero cross-contamination – positive displacement technology reduces contamination and eliminates slow wash steps
- cost savings – the ability to use smaller volumes of valuable protein resulting in cost savings and enabling a larger number of screening conditions to be studied
- minimal configuration changes for different experiments – eliminates the need for instrument configuration changes when changing techniques or liquid viscosities
- exact drop precision – perfectly positioned drops for downstream imaging by placing protein and screen drops with the same head
- robust and reliable – has outstanding reputation for robustness and reliability even in multiuser labs, very low maintenance
- ease-of-use – simple and intuitive software with fast set-up
- well supported – all backed up by an experienced network of support and applications specialists ready to help
SPT Labtech’s mosquito crystal can be used for the following applications:
all protein crystallization screening techniques:
- sitting drop
- hanging drop
- microbatch (under-oil)
- Microseeding
- additive/fragment screening
- soaking experiments
- other low volume assays that could benefit from high throughput automation, e.g. PCR, compound screening
