gentleMACS™ Octo Dissociator with Heaters 2022 (130-096-427)

Overview

The gentleMACS™ Octo Dissociator with Heaters is a benchtop instrument for the fully automated and standardized tissue dissociation or homogenization of up to eight samples.

Equipped with eight individual heating units and numerous optimized and ready-to-use gentleMACS Programs the gentleMACS Octo Dissociator with Heaters offers a fully automated workflow for tissue dissociation. In addition the instrument allows the user to create user-defined programs for almost any biological material. All eight positions can be operated independently.

Single-cell suspensions or thorough homogenates are easily and reproducibly obtained using the unique C Tubes or M Tubes. These single-use gentleMACS Tubes allow sample preparation in a closed and sterile system, providing a high level of user safety and minimize cross-contamination.

Applications
The gentleMACS Octo Dissociator with Heaters is equipped with several programs for fully automated tissue dissociation into single-cell suspensions, including:

• mouse or human tumor
• mouse or rat neonatal heart
• neural tissue
• mouse spleen, lung, lamina propria, epidermis, or liver
• mouse or rat skeletal muscle
• and more
  

Additionally, user-defined programs can be used to create fully automated workflows for all other tissue types. 

The Octo Dissociator is surplus equipment from a lab in Cambridge and is in full working order