Sysmex celebrates 50th anniversary and shares plans for innovative technology to equip clinical labs of the future

Sysmex celebrated its 50th anniversary at this year’s annual meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC). The company also shared its plans to equip the clinical laboratory of the future with innovative solutions in flow cytometry, urinalysis, and hematology. For Sysmex, the future involves automating even more of the laboratory workflow and helping its customers optimize the value of their existing investments through solutions with greater flexibility, modularity, scalability, and branching.

Revolutionizing urinalysis. At AACC, Sysmex showed its first fully automated urine particle analyzer. The new analyzer reduces the need for a manual slide review and delivers first-pass accuracy and unprecedented workflow efficiency. The UN series consists of three analyzer modules and is the first fully configurable urinalysis solution to offer expanded parameters. The innovative analyzer is awaiting USFDA clearance for sale in the United States of America.

A new vision for flow cytometry. Sysmex will be entering the flow cytometry field with a new solution for laboratories which improves workflow efficiency and more. The new device is highly automated, features a broad portfolio of CyFlow anti-body reagents and the PS-10 sample preparation system with automated cell wash. The new product will also include the XF-1600 flow cytometer with multi-colored capability, high sample throughput, and software solutions for the most difficult samples. Sysmex’s new flow cytometry solution is not yet approved by the USFDA for sale in the United States of America.

Broadest hematology product line. Sysmex also displayed its FDA-cleared XN-20 complete blood count (CBC) analyzer, a complementary system to its XN-10. It offers all of the functionality of the XN-10, but also adds the white precursor cell (WPC) channel, adding two more reagents – Lysercell WPC and Fluorocell WPC. The additional reagents target the different cell membrane compositions of the precursor (abnormal) cells enabling the XN-20 analyzer to provide improved differentiation.

Lab-optimizing innovation. Sysmex’s BeyondCare suite of solutions is another way the company is automating processes and workflows that take laboratorians away from applying their expertise analyzing test results. The Sysmex Caresphere dashboard is a network solution, providing data consolidation, real-time metrics, and actionable alerts to increase the operational efficiency of laboratories.