Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today introduced HeliosTM, a CyTOF® platform that enables system-level biology at single-cell resolution, on an accessible, expandable system designed for breakthrough discovery. Mass cytometry has catalyzed the revolution of single-cell proteomics, enabling the most comprehensive understanding of cell phenotypes, signaling pathways and function. Helios dawns as the most advanced tool for cellular exploration with streamlined workflows and multi-modal capabilities for advancing single-cell biology.
The Helios platform delivers an extensive list of features and advances to the core CyTOF technology, all intended to bring enhanced performance and convenience of operation. This includes a significantly more intuitive and easy-to-use software interface with real-time data display, normalization and control. Helios also provides improved sensitivity to detect and resolve lower abundance targets and an expanded mass range of 135 discrete channels with virtually no signal overlap or background noise compared to conventional techniques. This enables more comprehensive and straightforward panel designs ...
