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Open-source personal pipetting robots with live-cell incubation and microscopy compatibility.

ABSTRACT: Liquid handling robots have the potential to automate many procedures in life sciences. However, they are not in widespread use in academic settings, where funding, space and maintenance specialists are usually limiting. In addition, current robots require lengthy programming by specialists and are incompatible with most academic laboratories with constantly changing small-scale projects. Here, we present the Pipetting Helper Imaging Lid (PHIL), an inexpensive, small, open-source personal liquid handling robot. It is designed for inexperienced users, with self-production from cheap commercial and 3D-printable components and custom control software. PHIL successfully automates pipetting (incl. aspiration) for e.g. tissue immunostainings and stimulations of live stem and progenitor cells during time-lapse microscopy using 3D printed peristaltic pumps. PHIL is cheap enough to put a personal pipetting robot within the reach of most labs and enables users without programming skills to easily automate a large range of experiments.

SUBMITTER: Dettinger P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9151679 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Open-source personal pipetting robots with live-cell incubation and microscopy compatibility.

Dettinger Philip P Kull Tobias T Arekatla Geethika G Ahmed Nouraiz N Zhang Yang Y Schneiter Florin F Wehling Arne A Schirmacher Daniel D Kawamura Shunsuke S Loeffler Dirk D Schroeder Timm T

Nature communications 20220530 1

Liquid handling robots have the potential to automate many procedures in life sciences. However, they are not in widespread use in academic settings, where funding, space and maintenance specialists are usually limiting. In addition, current robots require lengthy programming by specialists and are incompatible with most academic laboratories with constantly changing small-scale projects. Here, we present the Pipetting Helper Imaging Lid (PHIL), an inexpensive, small, open-source personal liquid ...[more]

PMID: 35637179

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Open-source personal pipetting robots with live-cell incubation and microscopy compatibility.

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Open-source personal pipetting robots with live-cell incubation and microscopy compatibility.

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