Synthetic Biology
Revolutionize Your Synthetic Biology Projects with Picodroplet Technology
Unleash unparalleled speed, scale, and precision in your research. Evaluate large libraries quickly, ensuring efficient build-test-learn cycles for groundbreaking discoveries.
Effortlessly build, test, and learn
The key benefits of picodroplets – scale and speed – also address the needs of synthetic biology. Evaluate large libraries quickly and confidently to find your next product. If there’s a project that you think we can help you with, please get in touch with our team!
- Microbes, plants, yeast, and fungi
- Scale and speed to make build, test, and learn a reality
Built on picodroplet technology
At the heart of our platforms are picodroplets – picolitre-volume aqueous droplets in a carrier oil. Each droplet acts as a tiny separate test tube. Cells are encapsulated in droplets with the assay reagents and passed through microfluidics for sorting and dispensing. Miniaturized, high-speed and fully automated to streamline your application.
Scale, speed, and precision
Microbes, plants, yeast and fungi
Much more than mammalian cells
Picodroplet technology can be applied to a wide variety of non-mammalian cells. The same principles of single cell encapsulation and gentle handling give a broad range of applications. Excellent gas exchange characteristics into the droplets ensure cell viability and strong replication. Validated organisms include E. coli, S. cerevisiae, and C. reinhardtii.
Scale and speed
Screen millions of cells a day
Picodroplets give the best of both worlds. Encapsulating cells in droplets provides a gentle environment that allows high-speed manipulation, such as sorting, without damage or cross-talk between droplets. At the same time, each droplet is assessed individually to understand the local micro-environment derived from a single monoclonal cell. You can assess millions of cells in a day – every day.
Integrated build, test, and learn
Go round the cycle easily
The heart of synthetic biology is the design-build-test-learn cycle – carried out on a massive scale. Picodroplets allow integrated high-speed editing, assessment, and selection of large populations of cells. This particularly supports approaches such as directed evolution where the cycle is repeated over and again.
What customers are saying
“Reduce timelines to lead clone selection from 4.5 to 3 months”
James White
UCB Biopharma, UK
“Pico-Mine® removes the barrier of working with microfluidics. There is no need for microfluidic system development or optimization, the Pico-Mine® works straight away allowing the researchers to focus on biology assays.”
Michiel Bontinck
VIB, Germany
Seeing is believing
Don’t take our word for it – come and see our technology in action. We provide demos and proof-of-concept projects for our customers so you can build confidence in what our platforms can do for your synthetic biology research.
- Demos at your site or at our site in Cambridge, UK
- Use our cell lines and assays, or use yours
- Proof-of-concept projects – try something novel
We’re the droplet microfluidic technology company for single cell analysis and our customers are at the center of what we do
Our integrated,
automated platforms
increase efficiency,
delivering value.
Our unmatched
picodroplet technology
is future proof
Our platform is built upon robust evidence from key opinion leaders
Our collaboration with customers is
second to none
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