Links to flow and image cytometry-related companies (by category)...
Flow cytometers, parts and add-ons...
- Aber Instruments (they
market the Optoflow Microcyte flow cytometer)
- Air Logic (pneumatic components
for flow cytometers)
- Alloy Products Corporation (BD and
Cytomation sheath tanks)
- Amnis (ImageStream imaging flow cytometer)
- Beckman Coulter (flow
cytometers and sorters)
- BD Biosciences (flow cytometers and
sorters)
- BioRad (Luminex box upgrades, former
manufacturer of the Bryte)
- Cytek (they make flow cytometer
add-ons, including our Time Zero kinetic module, absolute count devices, automatic cell
washer, 96-well autosampler and aerosol containment hood)
- DakoCytomation (manufacturers of
the MoFlo sorting system and CyAN nine-color benchtop analyzer)
- GCAT (distributor of Partec flow
cytometers in the USA)
- Guava Technologies (a
personal flow cytometer!)
- Hamamatsu (manufacturers of PMTs for flow
cytometers)
- I-Cyt (third-party upgrades for BD flow cytometers,
particularly the Lyt 200S 200 mW DPSS 488 nm laser upgrade for the FACSVantage)
- Luminex (multiplex bead
analysis)
- Lytron (manufacturers of recirculating chillers)
- Melles Griot (optical mountings)
- Neslabs (they make our recirculating laser
chillers)
- Newport Corporation (optical components)
- NPE Systems (manufacturer of the NPE Quanta, now
part of Beckman Coulter)
- OptoFlow AS (manufacturers of the
portable Microcyte flow cytometer)
- Partec (a German flow cytometer
manufacturer)
- Phoenix Flow Systems (they
recondition old Ortho and B-D flow cytometers)
- Rochester MicroSystems, Inc.
(electronic add-ons for flow cytometers including compensation modules, etc.)
- Technical Manufacturing Corporation (optical
benches, vibration control)
- Tektronics (electronic test equipment)
- ThorLabs (optical components)
- TRITECH Field Engineering (service on
BD benchtop flow cytometers, sale of refurbished instruments, training)
- Union Biometrica (cell sorters for
large, complex biological objects (C. elegans, Drosophila, zebrafish, etc.)
- Value Plastics (plastic parts for flow
cytometry fluidic systems)
Lasers and accessories...
- Blue Sky Research (diode modules
and solid state lasers, fiber couplings)
- BWTek (diode lasers)
- Changchun New Industries (CNI)
Optoelectronics Technical Co. Ltd. (yellow DPSS lasers)
- Cobolt (solid state lasers)
- Coherent (lasers, lasers, lasers)
- DPSS Lasers, Inc.(blue and
green DPSS lasers, high repetition rate DPSS UV lasers)
- Edinburgh Instruments (argon-ion, solid state, diode lasers)
- Edmund Industrial Optics
(laser, optical components, filters)
- Evergreen Laser (new and
refurbished lasers, rebuilds)
- I-Cyt Visionary Bioscience (Lyt 200S 200 mW DPSS 488 nm laser upgrade for
the FACSVantage)
- JDS Uniphase (lasers and fiber optics)
- Laser-Compact Co. Ltd. Russian
manufacturer of solid state lasers for flow cytometry. They are imported by Power Technology.
- Laser Innovations (they
sell and service Coherent lasers)
- Lasos (lasers)
- LG Laser Technologies
(gas lasers)
- LiCONiX (lasers, particularly
small HeCad UV and blue)
- Lightwave Electronics (now
owned by JDS Uniphase, solid state
green and high frequency quasi-CW UV lasers)
- Melles Griot (HeNe lasers, OmniChrome HeCad lasers
and diode and DPSS lasers, including the 561 nm)
- Micro Laser Systems (solid state
lasers, fiber couplings)
- Midwest Laser Products (diode and
diode-pumped lasers, remanufactured ILT lasers)
- MPB Communications (green-yellow DPSS
lasers)
- Multimode Fiber Optics, Inc. (multimode
fiber optics and collimating optics)
- National Laser (laser tubes and laser
refurbishment)
- Newport Corporation (HeNe laser distributor)
- Nichia (violet laser diodes)
- Novalux (diode-pumped solid state lasers)
- Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH
(diode modules and solid state lasers for flow cytometry)
- OptoTech (high-power LEDs)
- Oriel (now owned by Newport Corporation, lasers and optical components)
- Photonics Industries (DPSS
lasers)
- Photonic Products (diode
lasers)
- Picarro (solid state lasers)
- Plasma JSC (Russian manufacturer of helium-neon
lasers and other gas-discharge devices)
- Point Source (fiber optic-coupled diode
lasers)
- Power Technology (diode and DPSS lasers,
laser power supplies)
- Research Electro-Optics (lasers)
- Snake Creek Lasers (small
green DPSS sources)
- Spectra-Physics (manufacturers of our HeNe laser
and other lasers for flow and confocal)
- StockerYale (laser diode
drivers, LEDs)
- TOPTICA Photonics AG (solid state laser technology)
- Trinity Technologies (laser safety glasses and
viewing windows)
- Wavelength Electronics
(laser diode drivers)
Image cytometers...
- Amnis (ImageStream imaging flow cytometer)
- Atto Instruments, Inc. (analytical
microscopy)
- BioView (laser scanning
microscope system for identification and relocation analysis of cells)
- ChromaVision (cellular imaging systems)
- Compucyte (manufacturer of our
LSC2, iCyt and iCys scanning cytometers)
- Evotec (scanning cytometers and
microfluidic cell sorters
- TTP LabTech Ltd. (manufacturer of the
Acumen Explorer laser scanning cytometer)
Fluorescence and confocal microscopy, including CCD cameras, image analysis and
other add-ons...
Excitation and emission filters...
- Chroma Technology Corporation
(filters for flow cytometry, FISH, etc. - we have some of them)
- Corion Corporation (optics, filters)
- CVI Laser (filters, beamsplitters)
- Omega (filters for flow,
including useful technical info on laser excitation wavelengths, filter wavelengths, GFP,
etc.)
- Semrock (excitation/emission
filters for microscopy and flow cytometry)
Software...
Antibodies...
- Accurate (tons of
antibodies and other reagents, including a lot of unusual stuff, often marketed for other
companies)
- Affinity Bioreagents
(steroid and stress protein antibodies and probes)
- Alexis (antibodies, signal
transduction reagents)
- Argene Biosoft (antibodies for
infectious disease and pathology)
- Beckman Coulter (antibodies)
- Becton-Dickinson Biosciences
(iantibodies, APC-, PerCP- and PerCP-Cy5.5-conjugated reagents)
- Bethyl Laboratories (custom antibody
and immunosorbant synthesis)
- BioCytex (antibodies for
quantitative clinical flow cytometry)
- BioDesign International
(antibodies, technical info)
- Biomeda (may antibodies for
immunology and signal transduction, PE- and APC-conjugated secondaries)
- Biomol (lots of reagents for signal
transduction)
- BioSource (antibodies for
cytokine detection by flow)
- Boehringer-Mannheim
(antibodies, including a good anti-BrdU clone)
- Caltag (anti-human and anti-mouse
antibodies - they have APC, Cy2, Cy3 and Cy5 conjugates, and newly developed PE-Cy5.5,
PE-Cy7, APC-Cy5.5 and APC-Cy7 directly conjugated antibodies)
- Cedarlane (cell surface marker antibodies, cell separation media and
complement)
- Chemicon (antibodies)
- Chromaprobe (antibodies)
- Covance (antibodies, including
custom antibody production)
- CYTImmmune (kits and antibodies
for cytokine detection)
- DakoCytomation (antibodies for
flow and immunocytochemistry)
- Diatec (antibodies)
- eBioscience (mouse and human
surface marker antibodies)
- Immune Source (lots of
antibodies for cytokines, AIDS, multicolor panels, many APC conjugates)
- Immunotech (Coulter owns them,
good selection of anti-human antibodies)
- Jackson ImmunoResearch
(secondary antibodies for multicolor labeling, many Cy2, Cy3, Cy5 and AMCA conjugates
found almost nowhere else, and good technical info)
- Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories
(antibodies, particularly secondaries, anti-biotin antibodies)
- Lab Vision, Inc. (a source for
unusual and hard-to-find antibodies, some characterized for flow cytometry)
- Lampire Biological Laboratories
(custom antibody preparation)
- Leinco (antibodies for flow
cytometry)
- Maine Biotechnology Services, Inc.
(antibodies)
- MP Biomedicals (formerly ICN
Pharmaceuticals (assorted antibodies)
- Novocastra Laboratories Ltd. (UK antibody
supplier, marketed through Vector)
- Oncogene Research Products
(apoptosis antibodies and reagents)
- O.E.M. Concepts (antibodies for
cell biology, custom synthesis)
- Peprotech (cytokines and
chemokines, antibodies)
- Pharmingen (a BD Biosciences
company - large collection of anti-mouse antibodies, they have CyChrome (PE-Cy5), APC,
APC-Cy7, PerCP andPerCP-Cy5.5 conjugates, good TUNEL and annexin V apoptosis assays, and
many cell cycle and apoptosis-related antibodies)
- Primm Labs (custom antibodies)
- Research Diagnostics, Inc.
(antibodies and research drugs)
- Rockland Immunochemicals (cell
cycle antibodies, biotin-avidin, anti-hapten and molecular biology antibodies)
- Santa Cruz Biochemicals (vast
collection of cell cycle and signal transduction antibodies)
- Sigma (good selection of
secondary antibodies)
- Signet Laboratories
(immunopathology-related antibodies)
- Southern Biotechnology Associates
(antibodies, particularly secondaries)
- StressGen Biotechnologies
Corp. (stress proteins and antibodies against)
- VMRD, Inc. (veterinary antibodies)
- Zymed (apoptosis and signal
transduction antibodies, antibodies for immunocytochemistry, Cy and AMCA conjugates,
anti-hapten antibodies)
Separation technology...
Fluorochromes, fluorescent probes, fluorescent proteins and other reagents for
flow...
- Aldrich
(chemicals and dyes)
- Alexis (antibodies, signal
transduction reagents, DRAQ5)
- Amersham Pharmacia Biotech
(secondary antibodies and the Cy series of fluorochromes, including conjugation kits)
- Bachem (reagents, including caspase
inhibitors and substrates)
- BioCrystal (fluorescent quantum dots)
- Biostatus (makers of the long red-emitting DNA
probe DRAQ5)
- BioSynthesis Inc. (fluorescent
tagging of oligos)
- Biozyme (enzymes)
- BioWhittaker Molecular Applications (bought out FMC Bioproducts - highly fluorescent DNA and protein dyes)
- Calbiochem (signal tranduction
reagents - high quality indo-1 and fluo-3 for calcium detection)
- Cayman Chemical Co. (EIA kits
for inflammatory mediators, biochemicals)
- Clontech (a BD Bioscience company
- GFPs, YFPs, CFPs, BFPs and DsRed, with a good manual on various
spectra-shifted mutants)
- Dojindo Laboratories (fluorescent
enzyme substrates and metal chelators - we are working with their fluorescent zinc
chelators)
- (fluorogenic enzyme substrates, caspase inhibitors, etc.)
- Evident Technologies (quantum dots)
- Exalpha (anti-human antibodies,
including panels)
- Flow-Amp (novel enzymatic amplification system
for flow)
- Fluka
(catalog of fluorescent chemicals)
- Gibco-BRL (source of Green
Fluorescence Protein for flow)
- Indofine Chemical Co.
(organic chemicals, natural products)
- Intergen (novel low molecular
weight phycobiliproteins (Martek's
CryptoFluor series) with reduced steric hindrance, fluorescent caspase substrates)
- Martek Biosciences
Corporation (novel PE-APC supramolecular complexes PBXL-1 and PBXL-3 for extremely
bright protein conjugates, and the CryptoFluor cryptomonad algae phycobiliprotein series)
- Molecular Probes (everything
fluorescent! - their catalog is an education in itself, and is available on-line - good
collection of excitation/emission spectra)
- MP Biomedicals (formerly ICN
Pharmaceuticals and Enzyme Systems Products
(caspase substrates and inhibitors)
- NEN Life Sciences (fluorescent
tagging of oligos)
- OncoImmunin (novel fluorescent
caspase substrates for flow cytometry)
- Panvera (fluorescence polarization
assays, GFP variants, BRET, etc.)
- Phoenix Flow Systems (apoptosis
and proliferation kits, etc.)
- Pierce (protein modification,
including biotin-avidin reagents)
- ProZyme (PE and APC conjugation kits
for antibodies and other proteins)
- Quantum Biotechnologies, Inc. (GFP and
BFP mutants)
- Quantum Dot Corporation (streptavidin-conjugated
quantum dots)
- Research Genetics (molecular
biology)
- Research Organics (reactive forms of many fluorochromes, including
fluorescein and tetramethylrhodamine)
- Sigma (biochemicals, good
selection of secondary antibodies, they sell PKH2, PKH26 and PKH67, those lipophilic
membrane markers developed by Zynaxis Cell Sciences)
- Synthetic Genetics
(fluorescent oligos)
- Toronto Research Chemicals
(fluorescent probes, enzymes, etc.)
- Trevigen (cell death assays)
- Vector Laboratories
(biotin-avidin systems)
- Wako (laboratory reagents)
- Worthington Biochemical
Corporation (enzymes)
Flow cytometry controls and standards, multiplex bead and other high-throughput
fluorescent assays...
- BioErgonomics (BioE) (bead-based
cytokine assays, flow cytometry standards, cell preparation materials)
- Flow Cytometry Standards Corporation (part of Bangs
Laboratories - calibration and MESF bead kits)
- Leinco (multiplex bead assays for
cytokines on Luminex system)
- LJL Biosystems (high
throughput fluorescence assays)
- Luminex (novel microbead assays
using flow technology)
- Molecular Dynamics (fluorescent and
chemiluminescent plate readers, info on fluorescent oligo tagging, ultrasensitive DNA and
protein binding dyes, fluorescent phosphatase substrates)
- Polysciences (fluorescent beads
and solid protein substrates for bead-based flow assays)
- Riese Enterprises (they sell
BioSource sheath buffer, red blood cell standards, etc.)
- Spherotech (calibration
particles, including Rainbow beads)
- Streck Laboratories (control reagents)
Flow cytometry services and training...
Cells and tissues...
Reagent directories...
This list of corporations and their products is provided solely
for the convenience of our users and the flow cytometry research community. It does not
constitute an endorsement of either the company or their products (even if we do like
'em!).
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