The VENTANA BenchMark GX Automated Immunohistochemistry Staining System is an advanced solution designed to optimize workflow in anatomical pathology laboratories. This system helps enhance efficiency, quality, and productivity, while providing reliable diagnostic results for pathologists and patients.

Key Technical Features and Benefits:

• Comprehensive and Flexible Automation:
  • The instrument allows for staining 1 to 20 slides with independently controlled incubation times and temperatures for each slide.
  • Supports multiple test types including IHC, ISH, SISH, Dual ISH, and FITC.
  • The process is automated from drying to staining, with ready-to-use reagents, eliminating variability for consistent and reproducible staining quality.
  • Has STAT (immediate run) capability without affecting slides currently being processed, ensuring fast turnaround times.
• Advanced Core Staining Technology:
  • Individual Heating Plates: Ensures uniform heat distribution and enhances reaction kinetics for staining on each slide.
  • Liquid Coverslip: Creates a reaction chamber that covers the entire slide surface, limiting evaporation, ensuring tissue integrity, and minimizing artifacts from dried tissue.
  • Ventana Vortex technology: Ensures uniform reagent distribution and consistent staining across the entire tissue section.
• High Capacity and Performance:
  • The system can stain up to 40 slides in six hours and an additional 20 slides overnight.
  • The independent heating design for each slide minimizes temperature-dependent batch runs, allowing for simultaneous staining of multiple different assays and shortening turnaround time (TAT).
  • The reagent carousel has 25 reagent loading positions per run.
• Efficient Reagent and Consumable Management:
  • Up to 7 different types of bulk reagents can be held in 3-6 liter containers on the instrument and can be replaced as needed without interrupting the process.
  • Reagent containers are easy to handle, with capacity for enough reagent to stain up to 60 slides.
  • The system has barcode management for automatic reagent checking, ensuring sufficient supply and expiration date control.
  • Waste container design with liquid level sensors and capacity for up to three immunohistochemistry runs.
• Optimal and Safe Design:
  • The system has a compact size with separate staining modules, bulk reagent modules, and waste modules.
  • Integrated pull-out workstation enhances convenience.
  • Minimizes daily manual work, freeing up personnel for higher-value tasks.
  • Safety features include waste containers with liquid level sensors to prevent overflow and automatic door locking during the staining process.
• Easy Connectivity and Operation:
  • Can connect 1 to 8 BenchMark GX systems (or BenchMark XT, DISCOVERY systems) and control them from a single computer system.
  • Uses a simple, intuitive Ventana System Software (VSS) interface.