Caliper debuts two new products

Drug-discovery products maker Caliper Life Sciences Inc. has launched two new automated screening systems that it says will help cut research costs and time. One, called the Zephyr, is a benchtop system designed to handle liquid reagents. The other, called a Desktop profiler, is a enzyme-profiling device that the company says is 50 percent cheaper than outsourcing samples. Kinase regulates transmissions of signals within cells. The Desktop Profiler will be available in November; no release date for the Zephyr has been given.