BD India installs its First Spectral Cell sorter with High-Speed Cell Imaging in South Asia

Jaipur: BD Life Sciences-Biosciences, a division of BD, marked the launch of its first high-speed spectral flow cytometry sorting facility in South Asia. The inauguration was celebrated through a scientific exchange event in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT-Jodhpur).

The BD FACSDiscover™ S8 Cell Sorter, featuring BD CellView™ Image Technology and BD SpectralFX™ Technology, is the first spectral flow cytometer sorter with image analysis capabilities. Its introduction has the potential to revolutionize research in India, particularly in gene therapy, cancer immunology, stem cell research, and various other biological research areas.

Commenting on the launch, Atul Grover, Managing Director, BD India/South Asia said, “The BD FACSDiscover™ S8 technology represents an exciting next chapter in the BD legacy of flow cytometry innovation, and we look forward to now delivering the BD FACSDiscover™ S8 Cell Sorter to customers across India and South Asia empower their novel applications and potentially life-changing discoveries. I am confident that aligned with our commitment to advancing the world of health, the BD FACSDiscover S8 will provide immense benefit to research, biopharma, and biotech laboratories in the country.”

The BD FACSDiscover™ S8 Cell Sorter, showcased at CYTO 2023 and featured on the cover of SCIENCE magazine, represents a groundbreaking advancement. Combining spectral flow cytometry with real-time spatial and morphological insights, it expands the capabilities of cell analysis and sorting, enabling scientists to tackle previously unanswerable questions.

Present at the occasion, Puneet Talwar, Business Director- India/ South Asia, BD Lifesciences- Biosciences added, “BD FACSDiscover™ S8 is a revolutionary innovation in the field of Flow cytometry. This innovative technology will provide real time imaging and spectral sorting capabilities to scientific fraternity in India, which will enable them to transcend newer boundaries of research. IIT-Jodhpur has taken a pioneering step to get the first BD BD FACSDiscover™ S8 in South Asia installed in their FACS Facility. We eagerly look forward to providing this landmark technology to other well-known research Institutes of India soon.”

BD FACSDiscover™ S8 Cell Sorter combines flow cytometry data with spatial and morphological insights to obtain detailed information about cells that was previously invisible in traditional flow cytometry experiments. The technology enables answering complex biological questions, such as how cells grow, function and interact, or to study exact locations of viruses or proteins within a cell, all at a highly accelerated pace.

Using the Stanford patent and expertise of Herzenberg et al, BD Biosciences introduced the first ever commercial FACS instrument in 1974 and has remained at the forefront of flow cytometry since.