January 24, 2024- BD and Biosero, a developer of laboratory automation solutions to orchestrate scientific discoveries, announced a framework collaboration agreement to enable and facilitate robotic arm integration with BD flow cytometry instruments to accelerate drug discovery and development.
Together, the companies intend to develop new software capabilities within BD flow cytometer instrument software to be compatible with Biosero’s Green Button Go® software, as well as jointly support biopharmaceutical and contract research organizations with their custom research needs, to enable easy integration with robotic arms.
Traditionally, several steps in a lab’s flow cytometry workflow for drug discovery and development require manual processes. With robotic integration, these steps can become automated. For example, samples are typically loaded and analyzed on a flow cytometer one multiwell plate at a time, requiring a time-consuming manual step each time the multiwell plate is changed. With robotic arm integration, tens or even potentially hundreds of multiwell plates can be automatically changed without human intervention.