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MicroConstants is one of the largest bioanalytical LC/MS/MS laboratories on the West Coast of the United States. The instrumentation at our facilities is state-of-the-art and is constantly upgraded to remain at the forefront of the industry.

Laboratory Equipment & Analytical Instrumentation

We have the following equipment at our laboratory in San Diego:

• 15 LC/MS/MS systems
  • Waters Xevo TQ-S and TQ, Quattro Premier, Micro and Ultima
  • AB SCIEX API 4000
  • 6 systems coupled with Waters Acquity UPLC systems
  • 3 systems coupled with Spark Holland Symbiosis on-line SPE systems
• 1 Waters QTof Premier coupled with Acquity UPLC system
• 7 HPLC systems with UV, diode array, and fluorescence detection capabilities
• 1 Tecan Freedom EVO 75 Liquid Handler
• 1 Luminex 200 System
• 3 Microplate Readers
  • Tecan Sunrise Microplate Reader
  • Molecular Devices SpectraMax Plus384 Absorbance Microplate Reader
  • BioTek FL600 Fluorescence Microplate Reader
• 1 Applied Biosystems Real-Time PCR System
• 1 MP Biomedicals FastPrep-24 Tissue Homogenizer
• 1 Shimadzu UV-VIS Recording Spectrophotometer

High-Throughput Screening & Automation

For companies requiring high-throughput screening (HTS) of clinical study samples, we have acquired several automated sample preparation technologies that allow us to analyze more samples, faster, and with better precision and accuracy.
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New Equipment Installations

Read the announcements below to learn more about our laboratory equipment purchases and how they have helped us improve our drug discovery and development support services:

• Installation of new Xevo® TQ-S LC/MS/MS system leads to improved sensitivity in bioanalytical method development (March 2011)
• MicroConstants expands its GLP bioanalytical capacity through the addition of a Waters Xevo® TQ MS system (June 2010)
• Addition of new QTof LC/MS/MS system enables MicroConstants to provide more definitive metabolite profiling and identification for in vitro experiments such as hepatocyte and microsome incubations (February 2009)