Sphere Fluidics has just secured £1.4 million in a First Close of a new investment round. The latter will finally complete in early September 2014 with more potential funding already in the pipeline. “This is the first tranche of funding that we will use to develop a brand new, single cell analysis instrument called Cyto-Mine. This machine will enable unique high-throughput, single cell assays for Biopharmaceutical Discovery and provide an integrated, superior solution for isolating high expressors, and subsequently assuring monoclonality, for Biopharmaceutical Development. This instrument marks the first implementation of our strategy to move to provide, not only novel biochips and specialist chemicals, but also high value instrumentation systems. This machine is revolutionary for the biopharmaceutical market. We have also identified other large markets that we will enter later with related devices, said Dr. Frank F. Craig (CEO).