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Stories & Features

  • What is a Manifold Valve Assembly?

    Jan 31, 2025 by IDEX Health & Science

    What is a Manifold Valve Assembly? A manifold valve assembly is used for fluid management in your life science instrument platform. Rather than the valve being connected by tubing and fittings, the valve is mounted directly onto a PEEK, acrylic, or Ultem manifold.
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  • Guide to Medical Device Tubing

    Jan 29, 2025 by IDEX Health & Science

    Our non-medical grade tubing is manufactured for internal components or non—invasive medical applications—where direct patient care is not needed or when the tubing is used in conjunction with other materials.
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    IDEX Health & Science medical tubing
  • Silica SealTight Sleeves and Kits Line

    Jan 21, 2025 by IDEX Health & Science

    We offer a SealTight system of sleeves, nuts and ferrules solves the problem of connecting capillary tubing to standard 10-32 coned ports intended for 1/16" OD tubing.
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    SealTight Sleeves and Kits
  • New Rapid Prototype Valve and Manifold Program

    Jan 14, 2025 by IDEX Health & Science

    Don’t let prototype delivery and testing delays affect your fluidics platform release. IDEX Health & Science can accelerate your instrument development and deliver on time with our new Rapid Prototype Valve and Manifold program.
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  • Fluid Simulation for Life Science Instrumentation

    Jan 9, 2025 by IDEX Health & Science

    IDEX Health & Science offers instrument developers an option to analyze how their fluidics will operate before committing to expensive prototypes.
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    Fluidic subsystem with a manifold
  • Our Plastic Manifold Manufacturing Center in Bristol, Connecticut

    Jan 9, 2025 by IDEX Health & Science

    With over six decades of experience, we lead the industry in manifold manufacturing and have a vast wealth of knowledge in Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Cost (DFC).
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    Plastic Manifold Manufacturing for Life Sciences
  • NEW WEBINAR: Spectral Modeling of Fluorescence Crosstalk & Filter Edge Position Jitter

    Dec 5, 2024 by IDEX Health & Science

    Watch the webinar replay! The session discusses the selection of optical filters in a fluorescence microscope system for biological applications, under real-world conditions of overlapping fluorescent probe spectra and spectral edge position jitter in bandpass and dichroic filters.
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    Theoretical Spectral Modeling of Fluorescence Crosstalk and Filter Spectral Edge Position Jitter with SearchLight™
  • Products for Chromatography Systems

    Nov 19, 2024 by IDEX Health & Science

    To produce accurate and timely results, high-quality chromatography products are the key to your success. Products including connections, degassers, valves, column hardware, pump components and RI detectors optimized for your instrument design can improve analyses.
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  • NEW WEBINAR: Accelerating Life Science Imaging Instrument Development

    Oct 25, 2024 by IDEX Health & Science

    Watch the webinar replay! Developing a high-performance fluorescence microscope is a challenging task in which all subsystems must work in harmony. In this webinar, we will introduce key system architecture decision points and discuss their pros and cons. By properly considering the impact of each decision on the full optical system, you will design a more cohesive microscope that achieves the desired performance.
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    Watch the Replay for our New Webinar
  • Welcome to Semrock’s SearchLight™ Spectral Plotting & Analysis Tool

    Oct 15, 2024 by IDEX Health & Science

    To overcome the obstacles many imaging system designers face with spectral management, our experts created SearchLight: a free, intuitive, online plotting tool that gives you the power to optimize your fluorescence imaging system. Learn more.
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    woman with laptop has SearchLight software on the screen