Pressure Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBIO) focuses on the development of a technology called Pressure Cycling Technology (PCT) which, by definition, uses rapid cycles of hydrostatic pressure between ambient and ultra high levels to control biomolecular interactions, allowing for a high degree of precision, reproducibility, convenience, speed and safety. One application for the technology is to aid researchers in understanding obesity and other diseases.

The Barocycler NEP2320 is one such PCT device designed for laboratories that want improved sample preparation in genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics. Processing one sample at a time, the Barocycler NEP2320 uses laboratory compressed air, bottled compressed air, or a stand-alone compressor to create high levels of hydrostatic pressure inside its reaction chamber. The Barocycler NEP2320 is smaller than the NEP3229, but still allows the user many features, including temperature control.

Pressure Biosciences designed the machine to fit in smaller spaces, taking up less space on a laboratory bench, but still providing the same power desired in PCT, using the same Pressure Used to Lyse Samples for Extraction (PULSE) Tubes as the NEP 3229. PULSE Tubes function as transmitters, sending the “Power of PCT” from Barocycler to the sample.

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