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BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter

A cell sorter designed to power your scientific discoveries with 6-way sorting and up to 50 parameters

Overview

A cell sorter to put you at the forefront of research

The BD FACSymphony™ S6 System adds cutting-edge technology to the performance of the BD FACSAria™ Fusion Cell Sorter and the innovative optics of the BD FACSymphony™ A5 Cell Analyzer to power your scientific discovery.

Configurable up to 50 parameters to define phenotypically distinct subpopulations and isolate populations previously only available for analysis
Flexibility to sort subpopulations up to 6 ways or into plates or slides

Find more information in the BD FACSymphony™ S6 System brochure.

Together, BD high-parameter instruments allow transfer of high-parameter panels to drive deep scientific insights without the hassle of repeating the panel design process.

Learn more about the analyzers in the BD FACSymphony™ family:

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BD FACSymphony™ A5 Cell Analyzer BD FACSymphony™ A3 Cell Analyzer

Features

The BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter has been designed to drive deeper scientific insights from your experiments.

The system provides excellent sensitivity to explore the nuances of marker expression and the sort performance you expect from BD.

The BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter provides:

Up to 50 parameters of detection with low noise electronics and PMT detectors
Optics designed to maximize signal collection, including BD patented technologies with gel-coupled cuvettes and high-parameter cascade arrays
Ability to sort up to 6 resolved populations simultaneously, saving you time and moving you quickly towards discovery
Index sorting, allowing you to review the cell-surface phenotype of every cell sorted into a plate or slide to support downstream experimental observations
The security of BD FACS™ Accudrop technology, which enables high-performance sort results by maintaining an optimal breakoff and pausing the sort when necessary to protect the purity of the sorted sample

Design the BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter to meet your individual application needs—from sample input to sample output and everything in between—through the BD Special Order Research Product (SORP) program

Choice of up to 9 spatially separated lasers from over 25 wavelength options. Available laser powers may vary depending on the wavelength
High-parameter cascade (HPC) arrays allow for up to 20 parameters on a single laser line
Removable filters that can be completely customized for optimal detection of dyes and fluorescent proteins for your needs
A multitude of sort collection devices with new flexibility. Sort up to 6 ways at one time
Availability of high-precision interchangeable nozzles for a wide range of cell size support: 70, 85 and 100 µm nozzles are standard. 130 μm nozzles are also available.
Peace of mind through field upgrade support, including the addition of new laser lines or additional parameters in the future, and the biosafety cabinet after purchase
Collection options, including 5, 15 and 50 mL tubes, microcentrifuge tubes and 96-well and 384-well plates. Support for 1536-well plates is available with the BD^® StepSort Option.

Contact your local BD representative for a full discussion of options on the BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter.

The BD^® StepSort Option supports faster isolation of cell populations without compromising accuracy.

Enables high-speed plate sorting workflow with additional software
Supports 96, 384 and 1536-well plates
Upgrade option available through the BD Special Order Research Product (SORP) program

The BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter has been designed with safety in mind

The biosafety cabinet (BSC) from The Baker Company and the BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter fit together seamlessly

BSC has been verified to meet National Sanitation Foundation International Standard 49, the European Standard 12469, the China Standard SFDA YY- 0569:2005 and the Australian Standard AS 2252.2– 2009 for personnel and product protection
You can order the sorter now and upgrade with the BSC later as a field upgrade that takes less than one day to install
The independent aerosol management system (AMS) rapidly evacuates any aerosols contained in the sort chamber and traps any particulates in a dedicated AMS HEPA filter

Performance

The BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter pairs with other BD products to enable an end-to-end solution for high-parameter analysis

BD has more than 40 years of experience and expertise building flow cytometry tools that push the edge of innovation to drive science forward. The BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter builds on that legacy and is part of the BD solution to unlock your experimental power.

Flexibility for experimental design with a broad portfolio of fluorochromes from BD, featuring the BD Horizon Brilliant™ Dyes and BD OptiBuild™ Technology, and our custom reagent services
Easy exchange of panels between high-parameter instruments, such as the BD FACSymphony™ Analyzers
Multiomic analysis of specific, rare cell populations targeted and isolated with the BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter using BD^® AbSeq Antibody-Oligo Conjugates and the BD Rhapsody™ Single-Cell Analysis System
High-parameter analysis using FlowJo™ Software, which offers native models for advanced data analysis, necessary tools for publication-quality graphics and a plug-in architecture to enable access to the latest algorithms and workflows
Ability to define a gating strategy for a population found using any combination of clustering, gating and dimensionality reduction with the HyperFinder plugin and the FACSDiva™ Software import and export workflow
Best-in-class BD service and applications support that is available worldwide

Testimonial

"So it's all about helping people as quickly as possible, making drugs to help with as many diseases as possible. And flow cytometry allows us to get to that next goal. And BD is constantly coming up as the frontrunner in the technology."

Timothy Cook

Principal Scientist/Manager, Flow Cytometer Technology Center at Pfizer

"The name of the game in flow is, the more data that you can get the better... Specifically with the BD FACSymphony S6 Cell Sorter. We're looking at six ways sorting. We're also looking at detecting up to twenty nine parameters."

Matthew Powers

Sr. Associate Scientist, Flow Cytometer Technology Center at Pfizer

Watch the BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter Testimonial to hear more from Tim and Matt.