EMBL Hamburg’s Instrumentation Team created a robot for handling fragile protein crystals used in crystallography experiments.
The robot, called MARVIN, accompanies another machine, CrystalDirect™ Harvester, which is already in operation at EMBL Hamburg. The Harvester was developed at EMBL Grenoble to automatically collect protein crystals from CrystalDirect™ crystallisation plates. It uses tiny metal pins to get the crystals ready for experimentation, which is much faster and more precise than collecting crystals by hand.
The duo - CrystalDirect™ Harvester and MARVIN - will also allow non-expert users to prepare large numbers of crystals easier, faster, and - even more importantly - will enable them to do it remotely. MARVIN mounts empty pins into CrystalDirect™ Harvester, then picks crystal-carrying pins up and stores them safely in vials filled with liquid nitrogen. It can even load and unload pucks automatically.
The robot is in fact already the third MARVIN robot at EMBL Hamburg, the other two robots being in use at the beamlines P13 and P14.
More about the robot: www.embl.org/n...
EMBL Hamburg Instrumentation Team: www.embl.org/g...
More about instrumentation work at EMBL: www.embl.org/n...
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