At Fluidigm, we strive to make our customers successful through ongoing product innovation to drive down their cost per experiment
Fluidigm develops and distributes systems based on integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs). Our systems can play a vital role in the advancement of today’s life science and allied fields, including molecular diagnostics, personalized medicine, and wildlife conservation. With IFCs, scientists are able, at last, to conceive of and implement large, complex studies that further our knowledge of biology.
The evolution of the life science may be compared to that of the electronics industry, in which the integrated circuit replaced transistors and wiring for routing electricity, sparking exponential increases in speed and complexity of computing. Like electronic circuits, IFCs are fabricated using a photo lithographic process, in this case, to pattern molds for producing silicone wafers that have microscopic channels, pumps, valves, and other components needed for the manipulation of nano-volume scale fluids. These components can be densely arrayed for parallel operations, without loss of reliability.