Cell Sorting

Cell Microsystems, UNC HIV Cure Center Win $283K NIH Grant to Develop HIV Reservoir Assay

September 10, 2018

Isolate and recover single cells for molecular analysis or the generation of clonal populations (Image credit: Cell Microsystems) Cell Microsystems and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill HIV [more...]

Cytena Announced a Series of Three New Single-cell Printers

May 10, 2018

The isolation, sorting and analysis of single biological cells has been rapidly gaining attention in the life-science sector over the last couple of years. cytena’s single-cell printing technology has rapidly [more...]

Separating the weak from the strong: New device sorts sperm

January 22, 2018

For sperm, looks matter. As you might guess, sperm that have a wonky shape — a lopsided head or crooked tail, for example — also harbor wonky DNA. Those that [more...]

Flow Cytometry Market 2016-2020

November 23, 2017

Flow cytometry is a laser or impedance-based technology used in cell sorting, cell counting, biomarker detection, and protein engineering. Flow cytometry allows for in-depth analysis of cell structures using software. [more...]

Microfluidic Chip Achieves High-speed Sorting of Large Cells

August 12, 2017

This microfluidic chip enables cell sorting in 16 μs; the enlarged view shows a demonstration of on-chip cell sorting of a Euglena gracilis cell (time interval of each frame: 40 [more...]

Sorting out HIV

June 14, 2017

Image Credit: EMBL/Merten Group Around 1% of patients with HIV – known as elite controllers – are able to survive without antiviral treatment, because their immune systems produce certain kinds [more...]

Single Cells Lined Up Like Ducks in a Row

June 7, 2017

The new microhole chip can be populated with 200,000 single cells, each held in place in separate holes. (Credit: Fraunhofer IBMT) The higher the concentration of tumor cells in the [more...]

[Report] Digital Cell-Sorting System Market: Global Industry Analysis and Forecast 2016 – 2024

May 10, 2017

Digital cell-sorting is the system used to sort or isolate the intended cells or particles from fluid samples. Flow cytometers aids these systems in separating varied types of cells based [more...]

MUSC Advanced Flow Cytometry Training

March 26, 2017

Educational Objectives – This two-day course will start by covering the fundamental areas critical for successful flow cytometry: Reagents, Hardware, Controls, Compensation, and Data Analysis. The second day will build [more...]

IBM Lab-on-a-Chip Breakthrough Aims to Help Physicians Detect Cancer

August 2, 2016

A view of IBM’s lab-on-a-chip mounted in a microfluidic jig. IBM scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for the first time, separate biological particles at the nanoscale [more...]

New cell-sorting Technology Could Improve The Development Of Cell Therapies

March 21, 2016

Progressively spaced micropillars in the new magnetic ratcheting system for sorting cells (Credit: UCLA) Researchers at UCLA have developed a new way to separate and organize cells suspended in fluid [more...]

NanoCellect Closes $1.75M Series A Financing Round to Begin Production of the WOLF Cell Sorter

February 10, 2016

Wolf Cell Sorter Instrument (Image Credit: NanoCellect Biomedical Inc, Click to enlarge image) San Diego, CA—Feb 4th, 2016—NanoCellect Biomedical, a developer of affordable and accessible flow cytometry and cell sorting [more...]

Machining Precision Microfluidic Channels

December 5, 2015

Microfluidics combines expertise in engineering, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology, and biotechnology to design systems in which extremely small volumes of fluids are processed through tiny channels milled into a device [more...]

An Optofluidic Chip for Single-cell Sorting Based on Mechanical Properties

November 29, 2015

A monolithic optofluidic chip fabricated by femtosecond laser extracts highly metastatic cells from a heterogeneous population on the basis of optical stretching measurements. The past decade has seen an increasing [more...]

Using Microfluidic Devices to Sort Stem Cells

November 11, 2015

An overview of the process. After the cell sample is pumped through the device, the sorted single cells are collected at the outlet and cultured in a low serum media [more...]

Microfluidics: Many Channels of Technological Advances

October 4, 2015

The advent of microfluidics—using “chips” containing networks of tiny channels and chambers through which minute amounts of reagents move—in biological research has enabled scientists to examine rare or precious samples, [more...]

A Fast Cell Sorter Shrinks to Cell Phone Size

September 22, 2015

Drawing of blood components being separated by sound waves (Image Image: Tony Jun Huang/Penn State) Commercial fluorescence activated cell sorters have been highly successful in the past 40 years at rapidly [more...]

BD to Acquire Cellular Research to Develop a Leading Genomics Platform

September 20, 2015

BD Life Sciences, a segment of leading global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), today announced it has completed the acquisition of Cellular Research, Inc. BD [more...]

Lab-on-Chip platform technologies for Point-of-Care testing and Cell Culturing

August 23, 2015

Authors Mark Olde Riekerink, Monica Brivio, Elvin Vrouwe and Marko Blom Introduction Lab-on-a-chip technologies are increasingly and successfully being applied in many application fields within chemistry and life science, including [more...]

Lab-on-a-chip Flow Cytometry

August 23, 2015

Even a very small number of pathogens can cause severe threat towards food safety. Due to increased safety concerns, there is a high demand for fast and sensitive methods for [more...]