In this interview conducted at SLAS EU 2023 in Brussels, Belgium, we spoke to Richard Hammond, Chief Technical Officer at Sphere Fluidics, about Sphere Fluidic's microfluidic picodroplet technology and more.
Sponsored Content by Sphere FluidicsAug 21 2023 insights from industryRichard Hammond Chief Technical Officer, Sphere Fluidics In this interview conducted at SLAS EU 2023 in Brussels, Belgium, we spoke to Richard Hammond, Chief Technical Officer at Sphere Fluidics, about Sphere Fluidics' microfluidic picodroplet technology and more.
The last six months have been extremely busy. We have a fantastic product, but there is much work to do. We need to get the product out there and continue to work on its manufacture robustness and usability to ensure it is good value for our users. You can put a cell inside the droplet and interrogate it to understand what the cell is doing, and then make decisions such as whether to continue with the cell or discard it if it is not behaving as expected.
We are also starting to bring gene editing technologies into the droplets, which means the editing process takes place inside the droplet. We have been considering both transduction and transfection methods, which have yielded interesting results. The Cyto-Mine lasers and optics enable the observation of fluorescent signals for sorting. They identify which cells are expressing and thus which to hold on to. After sorting these cells, it dispenses them back into the traditional well plate format, which is extremely useful for progressing to the next step of the process.
Conferences such as SLAS EU are very important. A significant challenge of bringing any new approaches or technologies to the market is communication – telling people it exists and getting them to understand its capabilities. There is a lot of high-quality life sciences work conducted in Europe, but it often does not receive the same attention, which is why I was pleased that we could be here in a European context talking about this because it is an important part of Europe and its economy.
For example, as biological systems are so complex, academic rigor and insight are required to understand and advance them. Meanwhile, the commercial industry takes this out of the research laboratory and into a usable context.
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