Medical technology company Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) and laboratory automation solutions developer Biosero have established a collaboration agreement to facilitate robotic integration with BD flow cytometry instruments to accelerate drug discovery and development. The first systems are expected to be available for research use later this year. The companies intend to develop new software capabilities within BD flow cytometer instrument software to be compatible with Biosero's Green Button Go software, as well as jointly support biopharmaceutical and contract research organizations with their custom research needs, to enable easy integration with robotic arms. Traditionally, several steps in a lab's flow...