Bio-Rad Introduces S3e™ Cell Sorter (488/640 nm)

The New Model Offers Lasers Configured Specifically for Immunologists

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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) today announced the launch of the easy-to-use S3e Cell Sorter (488/640 nm). This latest addition to the company’s series of S3e Cell Sorters incorporates the fluorescence wavelengths commonly used by immunologists.

Traditionally, cell sorters have primarily been available in core labs due to the high cost, size, and complexity of these instruments. With the introduction of Bio-Rad’s easy-to-use benchtop S3 Cell Sorter in 2013, many more scientists were able to sort cells in their own labs.

Immunologists customarily use the 640 nm wavelength to excite and detect red fluorophores, such as allophycocyanin (APC) and APC-Cy7. The new S3e Cell Sorter possesses the 488/640 nm laser combination, thus extending the convenience of benchtop cell sorting to immunologists.

Like all instruments in the S3e series, the S3e Cell Sorter (488/640 nm) offers a hands-free startup sequence that automatically aligns the stream to optics and optimizes ...

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