Dynex Technologies, a subsidiary of Magellan Biosciences will premier its new DS2™ System, a fully automated clinical-diagnostic workstation, at Medica 2005, to be held 16-19 November in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Building on Dynex’s DSX™ walk-away workstation, the DS2 System has all the power and performance of the higher-capacity DSX, but is designed for the needs of demanding patient-care settings and lower-throughput clinical labs. With advanced automation and precise liquid-handling capabilities, the DS2 eliminates variations that occur with manual processes, ensuring the rigorous, repeatable analyses required in critical applications – from immunology to infectious disease, hormone, allergy, blood-chemistry, and drugs-of-abuse testing.

Reliable, cost-effective, and easy to use and maintain, the DS2 automated workstation can process two 96-well microplates and up to 12 different assays simultaneously. An open system, the DS2 performs the entire complement of analytical steps required for virtually any ELISA immunoassay: adding samples and reagents, washing, incubation, and absorbance detection. It features the most advanced and user-friendly control system available, designed with full walk-away capability, sample ID-bar-code reading, chain-of-custody, and instrument-diagnostic features.