The Highway1 delivers high-speed, sterile, scalable cell sorting for applications in research and therapeutics. Sorting is done via VACSTM (Vortex Actuated Cell Sorting). VACSTM is a new technology for deflecting cells in a fluorescence flow cytometer. A minute vapour bubble is produced that combined with a precision microfluidic geometry creates a gentle vortex, separating cells into different sorts up to a rate of 37000 cell a second. Thus enabling fast, gentle, scalable microfluidic cell sorting, with no need for sheath fluid, and fully sterile GMP compliant sort cartridges. For the invention of VACSTM, Cellular Highways were awarded the 2020 Lee Lucas Award by the Institute of Physics.
The Highway1 is so simple to use, you can come and see a sort at our booth (#432). Cellular Highways believe that the Highway1 will allow laboratories to take charge of their own cell sorting, with all the benefits of gentle sorting, but the performance of conventional cell sorting.
Cellular Highways was founded to take fluorescence-based cell sorting into new medical and research applications, requiring fast, gentle, sterile, scalable cell sorting, using the unique potential of the VACS technology. Cellular Highways is a spin-out from TTP plc, based in Melbourn Science Park, Cambridgeshire, UK.