I assume the plates can be used for applications other than plasmid preps. Any examples?
Yes, the plates will find multiple uses. The Unfritted plate can be customized for a wide variety of column or filter applications. For instance, end users may insert their own filters or packing material. In one case, an academic customer told us he’d like to pack small plugs of cotton in the bottom if each well, then layer Sephadex over the top. This is a filtration material that can be used to filter out unincorporated radionucleotides from labelled probes. To make such columns cheaply, researcher sometimes put the filtration material inside a syringe, which is then spun in a centrifuge. For high-throughput applications, the researcher can now make multiple homemade columns in a frit plate, and spin the plate to filter out free radioactivity from multiple labelled nucleotides. Others may wish to filter out crude lysate or precipitate in the Fritted plate. Nunc already had requests from customers wishing to perform such operations using a number of different samples and a variety of
