Portable flow cytometer by handyem
Handyem (Quebec City, Quebec) has announced the commercial launch of its HPC-100 Personal Flow Cytometer, designed to empower researchers with its own flow cytometry cell analysis capability. This personal cytometer is a full featured instrument offering a choice of 1 or 2 excitation lasers and a 5-channel configuration (FSC, SSC, FL1, FL2, FL3). This instrument is more than 4 times smaller than today’s most compact flow cytometers. Based on the patented F3FiberFlowFluidics platform, the HPC-100 enables the testing of samples without sheath fluid, and hence brings a new modality where the researcher can reuse its samples many times. Using an intuitive browser-based software interface no software installation on the lab computer is required.
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PRESS RELEASE
handyem introduces the first truly portable cytometer dedicated to Life Science Researchers
handyem’s innovative design brings a full featured flow cytometer 4 times smaller than the current compact commercial instruments at a fraction of the cost of today’s solutions.
Quebec City
handyem is proud to announce the commercial launch of its HPC-100 Personal Flow Cytometer, designed to empower every Life Science researcher with its own flow cytometry cell analysis capability. The HPC-100 personal cytometer is promising daily assistance to speed up research as a new tool combining performance, affordability and extreme portability.
handyem’s HPC-100 personal cytometer is a full featured instrument offering a choice of 1 or 2 excitation lasers and a 5-channel configuration (FSC, SSC, FL1, FL2, FL3). With its revolutionary packaging, the HPC-100 is more than 4 times smaller than today’s most compact flow cytometers. With a footprint comparable to a notebook, the HPC-100 is a perfect fit for today’s crowded Life Science lab bench.
Based on its revolutionary and patented F3FiberFlowFluidics® platform, the HPC-100 enables the testing of samples without sheath fluid, and hence brings a new modality where the researcher can reuse its samples many times. Coupled with an intuitive browser-based software interface, the HPC-100 offers an unrivalled mix of performance and simplicity, while requiring no software installation on the lab computer.
"The HPC-100 really personifies the new category of Personal Cytometer offering revolutionary portability while featuring no compromise when it comes to performance. It’s all-fiber and alignment-free design provides convenience, maintenance simplicity and increased autonomy to Life Science researchers," says Alain Chandonnet, CEO of handyem. "This is the perfect solution for every researcher’s daily experiments, at a price everyone can benefit from. We believe that with the commercial introduction of the HPC-100, handyem is one step closer to its objective of democratizing Flow Cytometry."
The HPC-100 Personal Flow Cytometer will be presented at the CYTO 2012 conference, June 23-27, in Leipzig Germany.
About handyem
Handyem is developing and manufacturing solutions for Flow Cytometry based on its patented F3FiberFlowFluidics® technology relying on an all-fiber platform. Founded in 2010 in Quebec City, Canada, handyem is aiming at democratizing cytometry by providing day-to-day autonomy to Life Science researchers with simple, affordable and performing instruments.
Further information: Contact handyem at +1-418-650-5999, [email protected] or visit www.handyem.com