Robotic -180 degrees C “Smart Freezer”
March 27, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
With biorepository freezers, costs go up as temperatures go down. And, until recently it has been close to impossible to design a robot for specimen placement and retrieval that can function at a temperature low enough to preserve viable tumor tissue. Now, apparently, the Italian freezer manufacturer, Angelantoni (Massa Martana, Umbria) and a Frederick, MD software company, RURO, are about to market a “smart freezer” that can function at -80 or -180 degrees C, with different kinds of vials, 2D barcodes and RFID tags, a touch-screen interface, detailed audit logs, and GLP/GMP compliance. MORE
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