Low-Cost Automated Plasma Splitting from Whole Blood Using Gilson's PIPETMAX® 268

In this technical note, the use of a PIPETMAX® automated liquid handling system is described for the pipetting of the plasma from the whole blood sample. PIPETMAX can be used to aspirate a precise volume of the plasma and transfer this to a suitable analysis or storage tube. If the specific laboratory workflow will benefit from it, then diluent can also be added to the analysis tubes, and the plasma can be mixed into the diluent as part of the same method.