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Highway1

Highway1, with VACSTM inside, is a fluorescence-based cell sorter for sterile and GMP use. It consists of a benchtop instrument, a Windows host PC running HighwayR software, and a set of sterile, single-use cartridges. It has been designed to enable fast yet gentle sorting in a sterile and intuitive manner.

Highway1 product features

42 kHz  equivalent droplet rate

Cell throughput rates:

  • 10,000/s in purity mode
  • 37,000/s in enrichment mode

Sterile, single use cartridges

  • Sterile RUO
  • GMP
  • GMP Pro (Closed System)

No sheath fluid, no aerosols

488 & 640 nm lasers, 6 parameters

  • FSC, SSC
  • FITC, PE, PE-Cy5/PerCP, APC

Highway1 instrument with RUO and GMP Pro (Closed System) cartridges. Further details of the cartridge, instrument, software and host PC are below.

Highway1 product specifications

Highway1 cartridge

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The Highway1 research use only (RUO) Cartridge. Further GMP and GMP Pro (Closed System) Cartridges are available

The Highway1 Cartridge is supplied sterile and packaged in two parts: the cartridge (with chip and output vessels) and cartridge loader (with syringe, 30 micron in-line strainer for cartridge loading, and flexible tube for drawing a sample).

There is a magnetic stirrer inside the syringe for keeping cells suspended.

The sample flows to two outputs Sort1 (deflected) and Sort0 (undeflected). There is no sheath or waste – there is no waste stream to lose cells.

Further 3-mL input syringes, additional in-line-strainers, blunt syringe needles, and accessories for sample refrigeration are available.

The cartridge is easily handled with aseptic techniques inside a biosafety hood.

Fast

With cell throughput rates of 37,000 per second in enrichment mode and 10,000 per second in purity mode, the Highway1 is the fastest  chip-based sorter.

Gentle

Using patented VACSTM technology, The Highway1 reduces cell stress compared to conventional droplet sorters.

Sterile

Samples are run in sterile, single-use cartridges without sheath fluid to prevent any sort of sample contamination using the Highway1.

For every lab

The simple, intuitive software guides the user through the sorting process so the Highway1 can be used in every lab.