Thermo Scientific™ Multidrop™ Pico 1 and 8 Digital Dispensers offer enhanced dispensing precision with volumes between 11pL to 10µL in any well, eliminating the need for manual dilution while providing significant cost and waste reductions. Designed to enable assay miniaturisation, boost productivity and improve accuracy of results makes them ideal for a broad array of low-volume applications such as qPCR, dose response curves, drug screening assays and ELISA.

• Increase compound efficiency – use up to 10 times less reagent and sample with low dead volume
• Digital dispensing – precisely dispense consistent amounts of fluids into assay plates as low as 11pL
• Reduced labware waste – direct dilution in assay plate results in up to 90% labware waste reduction compared to traditional analogue serial dilution
• 40x greater speed – eliminate several workflow steps and achieve typical dose experiment in 15 seconds instead of 10 minutes by analogue serial dilution
• Decreased hand-pipetting steps – minimise repetitive motion injury and re-work commonly caused by manual pipetting errors
• Non-contact dispensing – disposable dispensing heads avoids carry-over and contamination
• Application-focused wizards – simple, yet sophisticated PicoIT software helps enhance throughput and limits repetitive work due to manual pipetting errors
• Speed up qPCR workflows - pre-programmed protocol templates for a selection of Thermo Fisher Scientific qPCR Master Mixes automatically customises fluids for each qPCR component
• Complete traceability – PicoIT software tracks reagent amount and dispensing time for each well after each run, enabling complete sample and compound traceability
• Dispense any volume in any well at any time – ultimate flexibility allows automation of even the most complex protocols
• Simplify assay set up with PicoIT software – flexible and intuitive experiment design is made possible even for most complex plate layouts (drug combination/synergy, titration of one or multiple components)
• Dispenses DMSO, aqueous fluids* (*requires detergent) and PCR master mixes – flexible for ideal applications with large or small molecules into any well of any microplate
• Supports a variety of throughputs and reagent number variations – 1-well format Pico 1 Dispenser is ideal for routine small volume dispensing whereas 8-well format Pico 8 Dispenser enables automation of complex multireagent/sample assays even in 1536-plate format