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Fluidigm Announces Collaboration Agreement with Karolinska Institutet to Accelerate Customer Adoption of New CyTOF XT
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health to Work with Fluidigm on CyTOF Research Applications, Product Development SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 28,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Department of Women’s and Children’s Health to Work with Fluidigm on CyTOF Research Applications, Product Development\nSOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced a collaboration agreement with the Karolinska Institutet for research applications and product development utilizing CyTOF® XT, the fourth-generation platform based on Fluidigm’s pioneering CyTOF technology. The Karolinska Institutet, based in Stockholm, is one of the world’s foremost medical universities and Sweden’s largest single center of academic medical research. The collaboration will focus on CyTOF based research performed in the Institute’s Department of Women’s and Children’s Health. “Research in the Institute’s Department of Women’s and Children’s Health focuses on cellular interactions governing immune system behavior in health and disease and human immune system variation, as well as immune development in children,” said Petter Brodin, MD, PhD, Professor of Immunology. “We are building a body of knowledge about the immune system, particularly in early childhood development, that we believe will have broad implications in future health care decision making. CyTOF provides detailed data that can shed light on immunological makeup and responses, leading to development of therapies that are most effective for patients. “Mass cytometry has enabled Karolinska Institutet to conduct significant immunological research in recent years that has yielded insights that inform new therapies. We acquired a CyTOF XT to expand our capabilities in this regard, providing rich data to help us better understand the incredibly complex human immune system, with advancements in throughput, automation and time to results,” said Brodin. CyTOF XT™, launched in mid-2021, is designed to simplify the design and execution of deep cell profiling studies, standardize sample analysis with reproducible workflows and automation and accelerate novel therapeutic development research to improve human health. The features of CyTOF XT are particularly valuable to translational and clinical researchers across the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors and the contract research organizations that serve them. “Collabor...