TMA Grand Master
The TMA Grand Master is the fastest, highest capacity and most user friendly tissue microarrayer on the market.
The TMA Grand Master is an automated and sophisticated tissue microarrayer, allowing the precise selection and extraction of specific regions of interest on the donor blocks and their insertion in recipient blocks. The TMA Grand Master elevates the tissue microarray workflow to a new level. With its high capacity, high speed and advanced features it is finally possible to create high density and high quality TMAs in a standardized way. Thanks to the clever hardware design, the block loading, block imaging, and arraying are parallel processes. Therefore, the TMA Grand Master can be loaded with new blocks continuously, even during the arraying process.
The tissue microarray (TMA) technique can be used as a valuable, high-throughput method for diagnostic and research purposes as well. By being able to place up to several hundred different samples into one paraffin block, TMA brings major economies in time quality and costs of tissue preparation, slide preparation and staining. The real advantages of tissue microarrays can only be achieved when using an advanced automated tissue microarrayer such as the TMA Grand Master.
By using TMA Grand Master you can easily and quickly create TMA blocks with great precision, of 0.6, 1, 1.5 and 2 mm diameter tissue cores. Optionally, the instrument can extract tissue samples to standard 0.2 ml PCR tubes. The extracted tissue samples could be used later for various applications at the field of molecular pathology.
TMA Grand Master prepares TMA blocks from biological specimens and samples of human or animal tissues. Typical applications include, but are not limited to the following:
- Laboratories at hospitals and clinics
- Pathology departments at hospitals and clinics
- Biobanks
- Research centres, in particular cancer research centres
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Toxico-pathological laboratories
