The results of our project, funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), are in.

See how we transformed our new addition to our offices in Silicon Valley.

Meet one of our latest innovations, the Cavour. It allows you to monitor your system remotely without removing the cover.

Learn about BeamWise’s software integration, which provides an interactive design environment via Optica Software.

Kinetic River has placed two of our custom-built quad PMT amplifier modules in Dr. Bill Telford’s lab at the National Cancer Institute at NIH.

After successfully completing our Phase I SBIR, Kinetic River has submitted a Phase II proposal to the NIH for our Colorado project.

Tune into this podcast to hear Kinetic River Founder and President Dr. Giacomo Vacca chronicle his journey from Italy to Silicon Valley.

Read an article covering our custom Potomac cytometer for Italy’s National Research Council.

See how we customized our state-of-the-art Potomac cytometer to meet our customer’s needs with precision.

Kinetic River Founder and President Giacomo Vacca discusses how we partnered with JKI to develop our Panama software for data acquisition and visualization.

The news item highlights our development of a custom Potomac cytometer.

We recently broke the 500-follower barrier on our company’s LinkedIn page.

We are sad to announce that Kshitija Shevgaonkar, our Lead Biomedical Scientist, is moving on to a new endeavor.

Kinetic River recently developed a custom Shasta fluidics module as part of an NSF-funded project.

Kinetic River recently launched our new Panama software for instrument control and data acquisition.

A Potomac cytometer was installed in the lab of Romeo Bernini at the National Research Council in Naples, Italy.

Kinetic River is pleased to announce that Courtney Harris will now be leading the sales and marketing efforts for the North American market.

Kinetic River mourns the passing of two giants in the field of flow cytometry.

Kinetic River delivered a fully customized Potomac flow cytometer for a customer in Italy.

Kinetic River is pleased to announce a new addition to our team!

Kinetic River founder and President Giacomo Vacca presented a webinar entitled "Latest Innovations in Flow Cytometry from Kinetic River".

Watch the presentation here.

Kinetic River is excited to have shipped one of our brand new, redesigned Potomac modular flow cytometers today.

We are very excited to share Kinetic River was recently issued U.S. Patent No. 10,656,072, “Flow cytometry apparatus and methods”.

See all patents issued to Dr. Vacca

Kinetic River founder and President Giacomo Vacca presented a webinar, hosted by Photonics Media.

Watch the presentation here.

Kinetic River founder Giacomo Vacca presented a webinar on “Advances in Time-Resolved Flow Cytometry” to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at NIH.

Watch the presentation here.

Kinetic River founder Giacomo Vacca presented a webinar on “Advances in Time-Resolved Flow Cytometry” to the National Eye Institute (NEI) at NIH.

Watch the presentation here.

Kinetic River’s fully customizable, modular flow cytometer, the Potomac, recently received CE marking.

We are thrilled to announce that we are expanding into new lab space this week!

Kinetic River recently celebrated our 10th anniversary. It has been an incredible ten years—the company has grown significantly in that time and has much to be proud of. As we look back, we are humbled by the growth we have achieved and our impact in the field.

Kinetic River was recently issued U.S. Patent No. 10,564,088, Particle analysis and sorting apparatus and methods.

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Kinetic River has been growing our team lately, with the addition of Jinman Huang, Ph.D, Elijah Kashi, M.S., Alan Chin, Ph.D., and Timothy Gray, M.S.

Kinetic River was recently issued U.S. Patent No. 10,488,343, Methods and apparatuses for label-free particle analysis.

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Kinetic River recently installed the Shasta, a custom designed fluidics module, in William Telford´s lab at the National Cancer Institute.

Kinetic River has joined forces with E.M.C2, a leading FlowCytometry service company based in Milan and Rome, Italy. E.M.C2 will distribute and support Kinetic River's products and services in Italy and across Europe.

Kinetic River recently expanded our footprint – doubling the size of our Silicon Valley office. The increased laboratory and office space will accommodate our growing team and the increased scope of our development efforts.

Projects in development now include...

Kinetic River is pleased to announce the addition of Rosemary Coates, Alastair Hood, and Richard McKay to our Advisory Board.

Dr. Giacomo Vacca, Kinetic River’s founder and President, spoke recently at the NIH Flow Cytometry User Group Winter 2019 Meeting. In a talk entitled “Innovative Time-Resolved Approaches to Flow Cytometry”...

     >>> Download a PDF of the full talk here.

Flow Cytometers: Empowering New Discoveries In June 2017, Laser Focus World published this article by Dr. Vacca; the following is a short summary. Flow cytometers have been at work in labs for years, contributing to our understanding of biology and medicine. With more scientists gaining access to these high-performing instruments, new insights…

Nothing beats the excitement of live demos. Through a successful collaboration with Excelitas Technologies, we designed a live demo of a modular flow cytometer in less than 2 months and showed it at three conferences in three countries this year. The ability to integrate hundreds of off-the-shelf components for this…

Larger footprint and increased capabilities enable Kinetic River to offer greater range of services Mountain View, Calif., USA, June 23, 2015 – Kinetic River Corp., a leader in flow cytometry instrumentation design and product development, completed its acquisition of the assets of Enlumen Technology Inc., a Silicon-Valley optics and photonics engineering firm…

On Tuesday, 14 October 2014, I attended a panel discussion and reception / networking event for Intellectual Property (IP) professionals at Santa Clara University. The panel featured the following speakers: John Cabeca, United States Patents and Trademark Office (USPTO); Dan Ovanezian, Lowenstein Sandler LLP; Laura Norris, Santa Clara University (SCU);…

This Friday (10/10/2014) I will be delivering a seminar on new optomechanical design tools as part of Hyland Optical Technologies' October Lunch & Learn event. Hyland Optical, in Scotts Valley, CA, is the new owner of the Ealing brand of catalog components (see Laser Focus World announcement). This event will…

In our technical analytical work with clients at Kinetic River, there are many questions that come up again and again--for example, in design reviews. We have developed a series of checklists that we use to evaluate the nature and quality of technology and intellectual property. This example illustrates our design…

This is the second blog in a series covering CYTO 2014, held this May 17-22 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Mainly in the form of raw notes, the intent of this series is to highlight talks, events, and trends from the annual cytometry congress and trade show that I found noteworthy. Clarifications, corrections,…

This is the first blog in a series covering CYTO 2014, held this May 17-22 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Mainly in the form of raw notes, the intent of this series is to highlight talks, events, and trends from the annual cytometry congress and trade show that I found noteworthy. Clarifications,…

Hard to believe it’s already May. The activity at Kinetic River has been intense this winter and spring, with new product launches, articles in technical journals and trade magazines , and a variety of speaking engagements—not to mention expansion into new office and laboratory quarters We’ll brief you on all this in more detail in…

This past March 20th I was invited to give a seminar at the Northern California Section of the Optical Society of America, held at PARC. Titled Advances in Optical Design, the talk focused on the emerging paradigm of parametric design. Fig. 1. Parametric design in architecture. Parametric design has been popularized by eye-popping architectural…

Fluorescence Lifetime Flow Cytometer In cell biology and cancer research, there is often the need to measure cellular processes, protein function, protein-protein interactions, or molecular transport with subcellular resolution. Fluorescence lifetime is a powerful tool that can provide this information. Traditionally, fluorescence lifetime techniques (such as FRET-FLIM) have been carried…