The second SLAS 2012 China was taken place from 19 Jun to 21 Jun 2012, in Shanghai with BMG LABTECH and Bio-Gene being proud sponsors of the event. Many visitors had stopped by our booth to see The Microplate Reader Company and to see what was new with microplate reader technology. Amongst the things to see were: the PHERAstar FS, the gold-standard for HTS instruments; the SPECTROstar Nano, the only 1536 absorbance reader that can capture a full UV-Vis spectrum in less than a second per well; and the new Atmospheric Control Unit with dual independent gas intake valves, making the FLUOstar Omega the ultimate cell-based microplate reader.