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Eppendorf™ is a leading life science company that develops instruments, consumables and services for handling liquids, samples and cells in laboratories worldwide – with the commitment to deliver the best solution for managing your most precious research. Did you know that in 1961, Eppendorf launched the world’s first industrial manufactured piston-stroke pipette? So, every piston-stroke pipette in the world has carried Eppendorf DNA – for 60 years.

About Eppendorf

The Eppendorf product range includes pipettes and automated pipetting systems, dispensers, centrifuges, mixers, spectrometers and DNA amplification equipment, as well as ultra-low temperature freezers, fermenters, bioreactors, CO2 incubators, shakers and cell manipulation systems. Consumables such as pipette tips, test tubes, microtitre plates and single-use bioreactor vessels complement the range of highest-quality premium products.


Eppendorf products are used widely in academic and commercial research laboratories, especially within the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, chemical and food sectors. The Eppendorf range is also perfect for clinical, forensic and environmental laboratories, and also the wider industrial environment wherever process analysis, production and quality assurance protocols are being performed.

Accuracy, reliability, experience, innovation - characteristics that customers all over the world associate with Eppendorf.


Eppendorf's broad product range covers three competence areas:

Liquid Handling

Liquid handling is a core process in practically every life science laboratory. Naturally, this is one of Eppendorf's core areas of expertise. It's hard to imagine a laboratory without our completely reliable devices and consumables.

Cell Handling

From manipulation to cultivation - in microbiology and cell culture - more and more scientists from research to production have been using our cell handling products.

Sample Handling

As a scientist, your samples are your most valuable assets. Eppendorf knows this. Ensuring their safe handling and developing innovative solutions for a wide variety of sample processing requirements is what drives us.


Featured Products


Eppendorf™ epMotion™ 96 Flex

Flex up your team with our new 96-channel semi-automated liquid handling system.

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Eppendorf™ 25 mL Conical Tubes

Smart sustainable solution for space and plastic savings.

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Eppendorf 75 Years

We don’t know what will come. But we know that you will find out. Together we can look towards a future that inspires and improves people´s living conditions. 

From Harvesting to Cell Manipulation

Are you familiar with the varied selection of Eppendorf products for applications in the modern cell biology laboratory?  


ThermoMixer -Take Advantage

No matter what your lab or applications, the Eppendorf ThermoMixer family integrates into your workflow with ease. Improve your assay results by mixing and incubating your samples at the same time – with highest vessel flexibility.

Get to Know Our Customers

Transforming science for tomorrow: Watch how the University of East London keeps their position as one of the most modern universities in the UK - with Eppendorf at their side. 


Molecular Biology – Life in Process

Are you familiar with the varied selection of Eppendorf products for applications in the modern molecular biology laboratory? 

Precise and Repeatable Pipetting of Problem Liquids

Pipetting seems easy, but some tips and tricks can help you to get consistent and reproducible results - even with difficult liquids.


Reproducible DNA Amplification in PCR

Nowadays, PCR can be robust and easy—but you can still run into difficulties. Make sure to get the most out of your PCR with some simple tricks.

Aerosols in the Lab

Aerosols are colloidal systems of droplets and / or solid particles suspended in air. Aerosols can be found almost everywhere in the world and we inhale them continuously, so we should differentiate between harmful and harmless aerosols. The most important aerosols in the laboratory environment are bio-aerosols.


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Pharma Solutions
Key Visual Pharma

Let’s work together to make our world a better place

We know and value the immense amount of work done in pharma laboratories around the world, which is why we offer a wide product and service portfolio that enables concentrated, relaxed work tailored to your specific needs.

Whether it's mAb drug discovery or vaccine research, we help you to find the solutions you need to get a stay ahead in the market.

mAb Discovery: from hit to lead candidate

Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have become increasingly popular within the biopharmaceutical market. Today, their production is more sought-after than ever. Our comprehensive list of mAb equipment streamlines workflows while reducing procedural steps and costs.

No matter if it’s providing optimal centrifugation for fast, reliable results, ultra-low freezers for cold storage, high-performance shakers or bioreactors to optimise cell growth and antibody production, our portfolio keeps efficient mAb production on track.


Facilitate Compliance Processes

The pharmaceutical laboratory is subject to many regulations. Our solutions support you in documentation, quality management and monitoring of devices and conditions.

Centrifugation Versatility SolutionCentrifugation Versatility Solution

GxP documentation support for antigen concentration, hybridoma, PBMC isolation or FACS

  • User management
  • Run records

Centrifuge 5910 Ri

Included accessories:

  • + Rotor S-4x universal with buckets
  • + 4 x 5/15/plate adapter
  • + 4 x 50/250/plate adapter

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Smart Cold Storage SolutionsSmart Cold Storage Solutions

Identify, store and document all samples of your mAb workflow

  • Identify samples easily
  • Store samples safely
  • Track and monitor samples, freezer and processes

CryoCube F740hi

High capacity freezer with touchscreen interface, green cooling liquids and high capacity for bulk sample storage.

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Gain Speed and Efficiency

Maximum efficiency at every step paves the way for a timely market launch. Eppendorf‘s solutions are designed to streamline and accelerate your mAb workflow and establish scalable processes.

Pipetting Recommended SetPipetting Recommended Set

For molecular biology methods

  • Save up to 70% of time with adjustable tip spacing
  • Change formats fast & easily
  • Increase throughput with electronic pipettes

Basic Solution

Eppendorf Research™ plus
+ Eppendorf Research™ plus Move It™

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Advanced Solution

Eppendorf Xplorer™ plus
+ Eppendorf Xplorer™ plus Move It™

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Incubator Shaker Recommended ConfigurationIncubator Shaker Recommended Configuration

For high-throughput screening assays

  • Screen up to 81 x 125mL flasks in parallel
  • High liquid load
  • Reliable performance 24/7

Innova™ S44i (refrigerated, 25mm orbit)

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Improve Reproducibility and Sample Safety

Reliable quality is fundamental, as repetition is sometimes not an option. Our solutions and services help you to rely on the safety and integrity of your samples, on the performance of your devices and on the accuracy of your results.

Centrifugation Big Volume Harvesting SolutionCentrifugation Big Volume Harvesting Solution

For large scale expression in cell lines or bacteria

  • Accurate cooling for cell integrity
  • Cross-contamination prevention
  • Reproducible operation

Centrifuge 5910 Ri

Included accessories:

  • + Rotor S-4x Universal with buckets
  • + 4 x 1L adapter
  • + 4 x 1L bottle

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Incubator Shaker Recommended ConfigurationIncubator Shaker Recommended Configuration

For hybridoma, expression of antibodies and cell line establishment

  • Reliable conditions: tight specifications, light protection for media
  • Rapid decontamination and high temperature disinfection

New Brunswick™ S41i CO2 incubator shaker

Included accessories:

  • + Universal platform
  • + Sticky pad

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Success Built on Understanding

Efficiency is just as vital to pharmaceutical research as innovation. To get your drug to market faster, you need streamlined processes that reduce downtime and ease compliance issues. Results must be reliable and repeatable for safe outcomes.

That's why you need a partner who not only provides efficient, high-quality products but also deeply understands the many requirements and challenges in bringing a drug’s successful development full circle.

After all, success is not just built on product quality but also on expert consultation, compliance assistance, new sustainability methods and the march towards even more digital solutions.

  • Seamless workflow
  • Highest efficiency
  • Reliable quality
  • Peace of mind
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High Capacity Shaker

Increase Your Yield with the Innova S44i Shaker

Are you looking for a stackable incubator shaker for particularly high protein expression yields in bacteria or yeast to quickly reach your ambitious targets? The Innova S44i from Eppendorf offers high vessel capacity and can sustain high speeds and loads 24/7.

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Shake faster! Ready for current high yield expression protocols

Current microbiological DNA and protein expression protocols lead to optimised yields with specialised flasks at shaking speeds of up to 400 rpm (e.g. Ultra Yield flasks from Thomson Instrument). Compared to other shakers in the market, the Innova S44i can provide and sustain high speeds at an orbit of 2.5cm (1 inch) 24/7 with maximum platform loads. This makes the Innova S44i a real workhorse for protein production. You can further increase your yield per footprint by triple-stacking the device.

Innova S44i



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Shake more! Up to twice as many flasks as other shakers in the market

Platform, chamber, and the heavy duty Eppendorf X-drive of the Innova S44i are optimised for high vessel capacity and load – to maximise the throughput of your lab. If vessel capacity is crucial for you, compare the capacity of the Innova S44i with other shakers in the market. Of course, the Innova S44i is also compatible with online in-flask monitoring systems like CGQ (by aquila biolabs) or PreSens, and microplate-screening systems like the Duetz-System.

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You are working tirelessly and need to stay motivated and keep focus on your scientific project, your teaching, and all the paperwork that comes with being a scientist. Your daily research creates the foundation for new discoveries which can lead humanity into new eras. This is why we have made it our mission to be a strong partner alongside scientists who give their best every day.

We want to support you with knowledge, tips and tricks, and background information so that you can execute your laboratory tasks easier, faster, and more efficiently. We want to get to know you - the person in the labcoat, your projects, and your ideas. Therefore we have interviewed multiple scientists from all over the world about their motivations for becoming and staying a scientist, about their projects, and about their likes and dislikes in the daily lab routine. We have come to realize that issues in science all over the world are similar and we want to find solutions together. So we do research ourselves to deliver better solutions for the lab, better devices, better materials, simply better equipment for you. Because Your Work Matters for the future of all of us!

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Sandra Postic - The influence of calcium on insuline production

 

Sandra Postic

The influence of calcium on insuline production

Sandra dedicates her PhD studies to revolving pancreatic beta cells and their function. These are the only cells in the body that produce insulin and they are involved in the task of maintaining homeostasis in a healthy metabolism. Her main method is functional imaging of intracellular calcium by microscopy. Intracellular calcium is directly coupled to the amount of secreted insulin and her daily tasks involve investigating different scenarios by incubating the cells in different solutions and then checking on the amount of secreted insulin. She spends days, nights, and weekends at the microscope. In a special case, changing the pH value led to valuable information on the amount of secretion.

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Archi Shailesh Mistry - Climate changes affect not only species above soil, but also marine species

 

Archi Shailesh Mistry

Climate changes affect not only species above soil, but also marine species

In Archi’s time as a Bachelors and now current Masters student of biochemistry she had the chance to dive into multiple topics finding her heart beating for marine science. One project on coral species gave her deep insight into marine biology, ecology, and the issue of coral bleaching. Together with a national marine research group she investigated climate effects on corals losing their fluorescence and the effects on marine life. Since then, her vision is to work for more understanding of ecosystems and a better treatment of our environment.

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Dr. Anja Schubert - How anaerobic bacteria effect the climate

 

Dr. Anja Schubert

How anaerobic bacteria effect the climate

Anja’s main goal as a post-doc is to reduce the effects of global warming starting with small organisms – bacteria. Her scientific project is about studying the metabolism of hydrogen and carbon dioxide converting bacteria. Naturally these bacteria produce acetates and the aim of her studies is to genetically modify these bacteria to produce valuable chemicals, such as ethanol or lactates, from industrial carbon dioxide output.

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Dr. Elaine Mission - Natural compounds can function as petroleum-based substitutes

 

Dr. Elaine Mission

Natural compounds can function as petroleum-based substitutes

Elaine is aiming to convert biomass into usable chemicals. In her post-doctoral research she converts, extracts, hydrolyses, and depolymerizes natural biopolymers, such as cellulose and lignin with water to capture building block monomers and convert them into bio-based, value-added products. For example, cellulose can be transformed into fermentable sugars such as glucose and fructose. Fatty acids can also be retrieved from other compounds to be used for bioplastics or the retrieval of bio-ethanol.

The platform molecules shall be used as a substitute for petroleum-based molecules. A very special technique for making these compounds available without using organic chemicals is applied. Elaine uses water-based extraction methods by manipulating the properties of water to supercritical conditions, allowing her to extract biopolymers while keeping the natural structure that would have been lost on raising the boiling point in chemical solvents. The working group acts in close cooperation with industry partners.

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Dr. Pradyumna Kumar Mishra

Airborne ultrafine particulate matter can lead to epigenetic modifications

In one of the most crowded countries in the world, India, airborne ultrafine particulate matter can lead to multiple diseases. This phenomenon is present in almost any large city arond the globe. Dr. Mishra and his team search for low-cost nano biosensors to predict future disease susceptibility. They want to reduce "the burden of environmental associated non-communicable diseases". Dr. Mishra became a scientist because he truly loves raw science and is motivated to help the poorest people in the world. Read his interview to get more details.

1. Please introduce yourself 

My name is Dr. Pradyumna Kumar Mishra. I am working as a Scientist-F (Deputy Director) and head of the Department of Molecular Biology at the ICMR – National Institute for Research in Environmental Health (NIREH) in Bhopal, India. 

I am leading a working group with more than 20 people. We work in the area of Environmental Health with special emphasis on airborne particulate matter associated human pathologies. Air pollution is a decisive risk factor for human health and disease and contributes more to global morbidity and mortality than all the other combined environmental risk factors. In 2019, air pollution (both household and ambient air pollution) remained responsible for causing 6.7 million deaths.

2. What is your scientific project about? What are you working on?

We are making concerted efforts towards delineating a novel role of mitochondrial-induced epigenetic modifications in exposure to airborne ultrafine particulate matter (PM0.1) consisting of black carbon, heavy metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Physico-chemical properties are being examined with the help of analytical tools and technologies, with the aim of developing low-cost nano-biosensors for predicting future disease susceptibility. The optical nano-biosensors we use primarily consist of semi-conductor nanocrystals (inorganic QDS, organic QDs, and QDSs synthesized using green chemistry synthesis protocols). We employ click-chemistry to conjugate specific custom synthesized probes which recognize different types of cell-free circulating nucleic acids like methylated DNA, micro RNA, lncRNA, and mitochondrial DNA in plasma and serum as bio-matrix (well characterized biomarkers with defined physico-chemical and structural attributes).

3. What do you want to achieve with your project?

The overarching objective of our research group is to create low-cost nano-biosensors that will help to integrate advances in bioengineering and clinical research across translational boundaries from the laboratory to the clinic, and to the community and back, for reducing the burden of environmental associated non-communicable diseases. 

4. What would help you to reach your goal?

Uninterrupted flow of extra-mural project funding support.

5. How is working for your institute and with your lab group?

Excellent, we work as a team. We have active collaborations with scientists from the Russian Federation, Poland, Belgium, Canada, and South Africa. Exchange visits (both ways) under bilateral agreement is routinely done.

6. What motivated you to become a scientist? And why this field?

I strongly believe that science is a tool for the benefit of humanity. Though my initial motivation was a raw love for science.

7. What did you imagine being a scientist is like? Is it like you imagined?

I feel blessed. Driven by a sense of duty, I continue to work hard towards fulfilling my objective.

8. What does your heart beat for in science?

Empowering the poorest people on the planet by helping in some form to eradicate non-communicable diseases.

9. Which are your main tasks in daily lab life?

As the Senior Basic Scientist and Group Leader, I perform several duties. Critical experiments pertaining to standardization and validation of assays are primarily done by me. I prepare the SoP, validate, and subsequently pass-on to my lab colleagues. 

10. What do you dislike about the scientific world?

Funding crunch.

11. What do you dislike about your project? 

I sometimes wonder whether my research would have direct impact on people’s lives, in the long-term.

12. Which job in a lab do you dislike most?

Nothing specific.

13. What do you like to do most in your lab?

Leading the research team, problem solving, conceptualizing novel ideas and work implementation.

14. How do you imagine your future in science / academics? What is your vision?

To create a Centre of Excellence in Translational Research with the following focus:

  • Design, development, and validation of point-of-care-technologies for human bio-monitoring with special emphasis on air pollution associated chronic human ailments.
  • Environmental health implications of engineered nano-materials from natural, to manufactured, to those produced incidentally by human activities.
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