Company Announcements

In fall 2016, Cytomate changed its name to CytoSMART.

Luxcel Biosciences, Axiogenesis and BMG Labtech announced in February, their receipt, along with Oxford University and Imperial College London, of €2.5 million ($2.7 million) in funding from the European Commission as part of the H2020 Fast Track to Innovation pilot to develop and launch a cell metabolism analysis platform.

In February, Berkeley Lights announced an expansion of its strategic relationship with the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai. The relationship focuses on the innovation and automation of cell annotation and genomics research using Berkeley Lights’ Beacon platform. As part of the collaboration, the Insitute is purchasing the platform.

Product Announcements

In November 2016, Solentim introduced a fluorescence option for its Cell Metric clonality verification platform. The enhancement enables two-channel fluorescence. In particularly, it is designed to aid further qualification of expected single cell seeding rates/probabilities and the incidence of “ghost” wells

In December 2016, Nanolive launched the 3D Cell Explorer-f, calling it the first microscope to combine holographic tomography and fluorescent microscopy.

Fluidigm released in December 21 its new high-throughput integrated fluidic circuit for isolating single cells for mRNA sequencing analysis. It can capture up to 800 medium-size (10–17 µm) cells using its C1 system.

In February, Genedata launched a new automated patch clamp functionality in Genedata Screener for Ion Channel Screening as well as a Genedata Ready-to-Run integration with the Nanion SyncroPatch 384PE.

Nanion Technologies launched in February the SURFE2R 96SE instrument for high-throughput measurements of electrogenic membrane transporters and pumps. The plate-based system contains all the necessary features for a high-throughput screening tool.

Sales/Orders of Note

In February, Kinetic River, a provider of custom flow cytometry instrumentation, announced the delivery of its Potomac modular flow cytometer to the National Cancer Institute. The system can be customized to support up to 7 lasers and 20 detectors.