Flow cytometry unit

Flow cytometry (FC) has taken a central part in biological and biomedical research.

This technology allows fluorescence measurements of thousands of particles – cells, vesicles, bacteria, plastic beads, etc – in just a few seconds.

These measurements can be used as data for analysis of the population of particles or in a decision process that sorts different particle populations for downstream applications.

While FC has been initially developed for the study of immune cells, the power of this technique has proven crucial in many areas such as single cell genomics, stem cells and genome engineering, to name a few.

Accordingly, the demand for high performing instrumentation has grown steadily.

The FC unit is an infrastructure at the University of Helsinki that provides open access and know- how about FC instruments to academic researchers, companies, and hospitals in the Helsinki metropolitan area.

The goal of the project is to update some of the instruments to expand the scientific capabilities, reduce the energy consumption and improve the handling of user data.

These new, energy efficient instruments are equipped with features that will significantly increase the capabilities of our services, opening up new research possibilities while generating higher quality data.