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Strengthen Your Instrument with IDEX Health & Science Life Science Components

Apr 15, 2025 by IDEX Health & Science

Component Guide Blog

At IDEX Health & Science, we design and manufacture high-quality fluidic components to ensure the reliability and performance of your life science instruments. Our products are rigorously tested for durability and cost-effectiveness, providing you with the assurance of maximum instrument quality and consistency. Applications include Clinical Chemistry, Next Generation Sequencing, Flow Cytometry, and more. Explore our component guides to learn more about how our products can enhance your life science instruments.

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Clinical Chemistry

Uptime is paramount for an instrument in a clinical laboratory. IDEX Health & Science designs life science products for precise fluidic dispense and distribution, giving careful consideration to low cost of ownership, and rigorously testing components for durability, and providing you the assurance of maximum instrument quality, consistency, and robustness.

Products: Manifolds, Degassers, Pumps, Valves, and Tubing.

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DNA Synthesis

Ensuring the accuracy of synthesized oligos requires precise cycling of numerous reagents. Fluid management of this nature necessitates a complex, highly accurate instrument architecture. Partnering with IDEX Health & Science on the design of your synthesizer enables next-level reagent handling, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your chemistry. Our integrated approach to fluidic life science design incorporates valve on manifold subsystems, precision dispense pumps, and pressure sensors to increase throughput, minimize instrument footprint, and guarantee the reliability of your nucleotide output.

Products: Pumps, Manifolds, Valves, Sensors, Probes, and Tubing.

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Flow Cytometry 

We understand how difficult it is to design a life science instrument for the rapid evaluation of cells under increasingly demanding conditions. In order to provide researchers with reliable results, instrument fluidics must offer precise performance. With cutting-edge technology and a team of dedicated experts, IDEX Health & Science is committed to unlocking the full potential of your flow cytometer.

Products: Valves, Sensors, Degassers, Pumps, and Tubing.

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Next Generation Sequencing 

Precise, repeated cycling of reagents can be a challenge for conventional fluid handling instruments. Partnering with IDEX Health & Science on the development of your next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform ensures you have a reliable custom solution that delivers accurate reagent flow with consistent valve timing. Our integrated approach to fluidic architecture incorporates a valve-on-manifold for compact design, reduced reagent waste, and easy system integration with minimal connection points. Complete life science subsystems offer piercing probes for reagent sampling and dispensing.

Products: Valves, Manifolds, Sensors, Degassers, Probes, and Tubing.

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Spatial Transcriptomics 

Whether you are targeting protein, RNA, or DNA, your spatial transcriptomics life science instrument should offer a rapid, reliable, unbiased view of the molecular content. Partnering with IDEX Health & Science on the design of your platform unlocks the fluidic tools you need to develop your transformational spatial omics platform.

Products: Valves, Manifolds, Pumps, Sensors, Degassers, and Tubing.

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