Microplate equipment

Microplate equipment is the family of instruments that reads, washes and processes samples held in standardised multi-well plates, the 96-well and 384-well formats that run parallel assays in biology, chemistry and clinical laboratories. The Questpair catalogue holds 1303 microplate listings from 23 verified suppliers and distributors across 12 countries. New, used and refurbished units are all listed, and 96 percent of the listings are used. Readers quantify light, absorbance, luminescence or fluorescence from each well; washers flush and aspirate reagents between assay steps. Prices run from EUR 1 to EUR 215.222, a span that covers a basic single-mode absorbance reader through to a fully configured multi-mode plate system.