Synergy™ H1 is a configurable multi-mode microplate reader, with monochromator-based optics for flexibility, filter-based optics for sensitivity, or both…BioTek’s patented Hybrid Technology™ offers applications versatility and excellent performance in a modular platform to expand as your laboratory’s needs change. Synergy H1 now offers continuously variable bandwidth monochromators for fluorescence excitation and emission wavelength selection; the fluorescence bandwidth can be set between 9 nm and 50 nm, in 1 nm increments, allowing users to fully optimize reader settings to drive the best assay performance compared to fixed bandwidth systems.
- Hybrid plate reader: Flexibility and performance
- Upgradable to meet future application needs
- Variable bandwidth for sensitivity and specificity
- Automated z-focus: best performance with all plate types
- Extended dynamic range
- Environmental controls for cell-based assays
- Dual syringe injectors with specialized tips
- Micro-volume analysis with Take3 plate
Sourcing your microplates shouldn't be an added task in preparing your cell-based workflows. Agilent now offers cell culture and imaging microplates so you can complete your workflows seamlessly. Click here to request your free sample. |
What's New
A Seamless Automated Workflow for Plate Reader Assay Sample Prep
The Agilent Bravo Liquid Handling system works hand-in-hand with BioTek Synergy Multi-Mode Plate Readers to deliver automated sample prep for standardizing and optimizing plate reader assays.
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Cell Metabolism: MitoXpress and pH-Xtra Assays
Download our Application Note to discover how combining MitoXpress and pH-Xtra reagents with BioTek plate readers provide sensitive detection methods, including advanced lifetime (µs) time-resolved fluorescence (TRF), for getting the most meaningful data out of your cell metabolism assays.DOWNLOAD
applications
- Cell based assays
- Biomarker Assays
- Micro-volume analysis of nucleic acid and protein
- Kinetic assays
- Micro-volume nucleic acid and protein quantification with the Take3 Micro-Volume Plate

Effect of increasing levels of ethanol on yeast growth

HTRF® ratios for AMD3011 and SDF1-alpha

Micro-volume (2 µL) quantification of up to 48 samples with Take3 Plate
These are just a few examples of the many important applications for Synergy H1. Visit our Applications page to see more.
BioTek Field Applications Scientists (FAS) and Product Specialists provide unparalleled scientific support, assisting with experimental planning and assay optimization on BioTek’s instrumentation and software. Learn how they can help move your science forward… faster!
Features
Hybrid plate reader: Flexibility and performance

Upgradable to meet future application needs

Synergy H1’s modular design allows you to start with what you need now, and add detection modes, gas control and dual reagent injectors as your laboratory’s workflows evolve. |
Variable bandwidth for sensitivity and specificity



Extended dynamic range

Environmental controls for cell-based assays

Dual syringe injectors with specialized tips

Micro-volume analysis with Take3 plate

Enable micro-volume analysis with the Synergy H1, using the Take3 Plate. Measure up to 16 or 48 samples in one run and save a lot of time, compared to single-sample devices. Gen5 has customizable protocols for ssDNA, dsDNA, RNA and protein quantification in 2 µL. |
Customer Spotlight

24-June-15
Biocontrol agents provide a safer alternative to chemical pesticides and insecticides for the agricultural and forestry industries, as well as human health. In this video, Dr Bethany Greenfield, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the Biocontrol and Natural Products (BANP) Group at Swansea University, describes her research into the use of Metarhizium anisopliae for the control of mosquitoes. Hear how the BioTek Synergy H1 enables the group to efficiently perform a range of analyses, from protein quantification to measuring insect stress response.