Millipore India Invests Rs 25 Lakh For Lab-On-Wheels Project

Millipore India has invested Rs 25 lakh for a lab-on-wheels project. The mobile lab is an initiative of Millipore India, Eppendorf and Micro Devices Metrohm. The state-of-the-art lab-on-wheels and is expected to visit college campuses where biotech, pharma and other science students across the country can have a real life experience on the laboratory practices. The key objective of the lab is to showcase and demonstrate to students the latest lab equipment for applications like PCR, ion analysis, membrane filtration, protein research, chromatography etc. Through this institutions and students will not only get to see the latest sophisticated equipment but also get practical insights, ask questions, understand concepts. Among the equipment on display and being demonstrated in the mobile lab is the Direct Q3, an international gold award winning pure and ultrapure water purification system designed specially for biotech/pharma/engineering colleges. Other life science products from Millipore include filtration units, general lab filtration devices, millex disposable syringe filters, centrifugals used in protein research. Metrohm has on display the latest technologies and products for ion analysis, while Eppendorf has PCR equipment, equipment for cell manipulation, DNA amplification, pipettes, centrifuges etc. (Ref : Chronicle Pharmabiz dated July 27, 2006)