Work small, think big
At Sphere Fluidics we ease the journey to discovery by providing instruments and consumables for single cell analysis and isolation.
Built upon our picodroplet microfluidic technology, our solutions fit seamlessly into your lab workflow — saving time and providing absolute assurance of quality and reliability. We work small so you can think big.
Our Products
Leveraging our expertise in picodroplet microfluidic technology, we offer high-throughput platforms, consumables, and reagents for single cell isolation as well as analysis in biologics discovery and development, cell engineering, synthetic biology, and more. We’ve collaborated with key opinion leaders to ensure that they are robust, proven, and will fit seamlessly into your workflows. Work small, think big with us.
Picodroplets – the core of our platforms
At the heart of our platforms are picodroplets. These are tiny droplets of aqueous fluid in an oil carrier fluid (a ‘single emulsion’) or an aqueous core surrounded by an oil shell in an aqueous carrier fluid (a ‘double emulsion’). Each picodroplet is used to encapsulate a cell. The chemistry of the emulsions is carefully designed to give long-term stable, biocompatible droplets with minimal leakage of molecules from the droplet, right down to small molecules such as metabolites. This provides an ultra-miniaturized test tube, containing media, reagents, and cells, that allows large-scale experiments at the single cell level.