How to choose sample handling and liquid handling equipment
Sample handling equipment encompasses manual pipettes, semi-automated pipetting workstations, and fully automated liquid handlers used to aspirate, dispense, transfer, dilute, pool, and aliquot biological and chemical samples in research, clinical, and industrial labs. Liquid handling is critical in biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, research institutes, hospital and diagnostic laboratories, academic institutions, and others — with applications in drug discovery, genomics, clinical diagnostics, proteomics, and many other fields. Buyers are typically lab managers, automation engineers, core facility directors, and procurement officers selecting platforms that balance throughput, footprint, accuracy class, and regulatory compliance.