Customized Delaware for Academia Sinica, Taiwan

The customization of the Delaware for the Academia Sinica, Taiwan was completed on-site during installation by incorporating one of Professor Ching-Wei Lin’s detectors into the instrument. Once the Delaware was hooked up, we ran initial tests on stained live cells and immediately got very strong signals, including from the freshly installed detector.

The Academia Sinica team had previously run the same tests on a Beckman Coulter CytoFLEX, and was eager to see how the Delaware performance would compare. The graph below shows that the positive population of interest, in the purple circle, had signals 100x stronger than on the CytoFLEX.

Kinetic River’s Dr. Giacomo Vacca and principal scientist Dr. Ann Lu spent their remaining time at the National Taiwan University lab training Professor Lin’s team, including PhD students Carlos Quiroz, MD and Ai Phuong Nguyen, and several undergraduate students on the ins and outs of the instrument.

This Delaware deployment could not have gone better! Thank you to the Academia Sinica, Professor Lin, and his team for supporting us in this endeavor. With their help, we achieved a smooth and successful installation, and obtained immediate, strong results from a novel customization.