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Akoya Biosciences Proxima Spatial Biology Platform

Sep 18, 2020

Akoya Biosciences this week launched the Proxima Spatial Biology Platform to integrate rapid image acquisition and secure data sharing in the cloud. The new software is designed to allow users to visualize and analyze whole-slide, multiplexed immunofluorescence images generated by Akoya's Phenoptics platform, and will soon be expanded to visualize and analyze ultra-high-plex images generated by Akoya's CODEX platform, enabling an integrated, flexible, and scalable solution from discovery to translational and clinical research, the company said.

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