Sample Prep Equipment Resources

Are you doing a sample prep step in your lab? If so, Labconco offers many resources to help you choose the best equipment or process for your needs. Once you choose the right equipment, application notes are available for specific protocols along with suggestions for maintaining your product over time.

What Sample Prep Process is Right for Your Samples?

Unsure on the best sample concentration method? Whether your samples are large or small, heat sensitive or not heat sensitive, contain acids or solvents, we have the right product for your needs. These articles provide considerations and guidance for equipment selection.

• Lyophilization, evaporation or concentration: Which is best for my samples?

• Sample prep: What to use, why to use it

• What is the best way to concentrate?

• 4 questions to answer when selecting an evaporator

• How to select the right hood or sample prep equipment for your application

• You're Hot, Then You're Cold

• Hidden benefits of design: Slanted lid of RapidVap Vertex Dry Evaporator

• How to Choose the right CentriVap Vacuum Concentrator

• How to Select a Centrifugal Concentrator

• 5 questions to ask when selecting a concentrator

Accessories Make the Difference

Once you choose what equipment is best for your samples, accessories will customize your equipment specifically for your samples and applications. Whether the accessory is necessary like a vacuum pump or cold trap or a simple sample tube holder that makes life easier, Labconco offers a wide variety of options.

• 5 most useful sample prep accessories

• How to select the correct Cold Trap

• Choose the correct Cold Trap for your CentriVap Vacuum Concentrator

• Which Cold Trap is Best for my Samples?

• How to select lab vacuum pumps for high vapor-flow applications

• How to choose a vacuum pump for sample prep evaporation

• How to select the right vacuum pump

• Which vacuum pump is right for you?

Sample Prep Applications

Please review specific methods on a variety of applications that include helpful hints for successful sample prep.

• New RapidVap Vertex Application Notes now available

• Combinatorial Chemistry Sample Prep using Labconco's RapidVap Vertex

• Concentrating heat sensitive samples without degradation

• Micro IR Vacuum Concentrator increases yields in DNA analysis

• Using the micro IR for genomic DNA isolation

Maintaining your equipment

Once installed, the following article will help you maintain your equipment for years to come.

• Maintaining laboratory equipment during periods of inactivity: Vacuum Pumps and Cold Traps

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