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In an effort to expand U.S. research capabilities, Black Dog is making it more affordable than ever for researchers to eqiup their labs with microplate readers. From now through August 1, 2011, Black Dog is offering significant savings on its refurbished FLIPR® fluorometric microplate readers. Customers can choose from FILPR® 2 and FLIPR® 3 models. Both models are offered with a standard water-cooled laser or with an energy- and space-saving air-cooled laser at up to 50%-off standard prices and comparable refurbished models. During the promotional period, installation and set up of the instruments is included with the purchase price, which represents a $10,000 added value. Every refurbished FLIPR® system comes complete with a full 90-day warranty, which begins on the day the FLIPR® fluorometric reader installation is completed. Interested customers should contact Black Dog at 919-816-7278 for more information or to request a quotation, or they can visit the promotions section of the Black Dog website. [Close]

Black Dog announces a limited-time promotion for laboratory consumables. The company is offering new customers a 35% savings on their first order of consumables as an incentive to give Black Dog a try. Black Dog has partnered with quality lab product manufacturers such as Axygen, Greiner and Corning to offer a wide range of quality consumables such as microplates, robotic tips, reagents, and more. The offer is a limited-time promotion. Customers are urged to contact Black Dog directly by phone or to request a product quotation via the company website. The promotional offer is subject to change without notice and may be terminated at any time. [Close]

Black Dog Technical Services announces plans to provide new repair and maintenance services for FLIPR^TETRA instruments. Black Dog Technical Services, Inc. was founded in 2005 and built its business by providing quality technical services and support for FLIPR® fluorescence readers. Black Dog offers various Service Contracts, Preventative Maintenance Contracts, as well as billable repair service for FLIPR® 1, FLIPR® 384, FLIPR® 2, and FLIPR® 3 systems and soon will be providing technical service and repair for FLIPR^TETRA® instruments. Tom Leen, President of Black Dog Technical Services, recently commented that requests from existing customers prompted their decision to expand services in this area. [Close]

Black Dog Solutions expands its line of quality reagents for life science labs through its recent distributorship with TEFLabs. TEFLabs is committed to providing scientists worldwide with high quality materials to support and advance their work. Their products are currently employed by scientists, universities and laboratories for research in Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Biomolecular Screening, High Throughput Screening, Microbiology, and Neuroscience. [Close]

Black Dog Solutions expands its line of quality reagents for life science labs through its recent partnership with qARTA•BIO. qARTA•BIO specializes in the design, development and production of reagents for use in the PCR process. The qARTA•BIO production team has over 10 years experience in producing molecular biology reagents and employs strict production and quality control procedures to ensure that its reagents are of the highest quality. Black Dog will represent the company's line of enzymes, mixes, nucleotides and other associated peripherals. [Close]

Black Dog relocates its headquarters and depot laboratory instrument services to a new expanded facility. Black Dog Technical Services, Inc. was founded in 2005 to provide quality technical services and support for FLIPR® fluorescence readers. Since that time Black Dog has expanded it service offerings to cover additional instrumentation such as EMBLA® cell washers. In 2007, Black Dog started selling laboratory instrumentation for high-throughput life science research applications. And, in 2008, Black Dog Solutions, LLC. began distributing quality laboratory consumables such as microplates and robotic tips, pipette tips, microtubes, PCR products and sealing products. The company has grown significantly since its beginnings and recently moved to an expanded facility that will house in excess of 35 FLIPR® fluorescence readers and one of the largest FLIPR spare parts inventories. Black Dog headquarters, warehousing and depot services will be provided from this new location. [Close]

Black Dog Solutions announces a new partnership with Corning, Inc., to represent Corning's full line of high-throughput plates. Black Dog provides a wide range of laboratory instruments and consumables for high throughput applications. Black Dog's President and Founder, Tom Leen, commented that Corning high-throughput plates are the perfect complement to our existing high-throughput laboratory products. Corning® is a leading developer and manufacturer of scientific laboratory products for over 90 years, offering a wide range of consumables for the life science laboratory. We're proud to represent their products. [Close]

Black Dog Technical Services and Hudson Robotics, Inc. introduce the new "Hit Fetcher" cherry pick system at the Merck Symposium. The HitFetcher allows you to automatically cherry pick hits for same day re-testing with no additional effort. The HitFetcher plate stacker system holds 30 original compound plates, 12 disposable tip boxes, and 30 secondary hit plates - and it is easy to set up. It handles 96- or 384-well plates and tip boxes without physical setup hanges. It is compatible with any high throughput screening (HTS) platform - or it can be used as a stand-alone pipettor for fluid transfer. It is easy to load and remove plate stacks, and finished hit plates can be removed at any time. The HitFetcher offers researchers an easy, flexible liquid-handler setup and method development. [Close]

Black Dog Technical Services launches a new and innovative Air Cooled Laser solution (patent pending) for FLIPR fluorescence readers at the LRIG Mid-Atlantic Seminar and Exhibition. Black Dog has developed technology to upgrade the light source of existing FLIPR instruments to an air-cooled laser, which eliminates the need for a water chiller and hoses. The Air Cooled Laser solution saves energy and helps to cut the FLIPR system footprint in half - without compromising research results! With the smaller FLIPR® system, researchers can keep their 8-foot FLIPR table and use the open space as a lab workstation, or upgrade to a smaller table to cut their FLIPR® workstations footprint in half! Tests comparing Water-Cooled and Air-Cooled solutions show that results are comparable with both systems. [Close]

Black Dog Solutions expands its line of quality reagents for life science labs through its recent distributorship with AAT Bioquest, Inc. (formerly ABD Bioquest, Inc.). AAT Bioquest is well known for developing, manufacturing, and marketing bioanalytical research reagents and kits to scientists engaged in life science research, diagnostic R&D and drug discovery. AAT Bioquest specializes in the area of photometric detections including absorption (color), fluorescence and luminescence technologies. [Close]

Black Dog Solutions announces its partnership with Greiner Bio-One® to distribute high quality Greiner Bio-One® microplates for high throughput screening and other applications. Greiner Bio-One® is a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of high-quality consumables to biotechnology, diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies. Greiner Bio-One® microplates supplied by Black Dog include 96 well microplates, 384 well microplates, 1536 well microplates and 96 well half area microplates. [Close]

Black Dog Solutions announces its partnership with Axygen, Inc. to distribute Axygen® laboratory consumables for high-throughput and other applications. Axygen is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacturing of quality products for life science laboratories. Black Dog is pleased to represent Axygen high quality products and has started distributing Axygen® high throughput screening (HTS) products such as deep well plates and assay plates, robotic tips, and more. [Close]

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