# Berkeley Lights

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## TL;DR

A California maker of laboratory instruments that grow, test and pick out single living cells on a chip, used among other things to find T cells and antibodies for new medicines. It became part of Bruker in 2023.

## Summary

Berkeley Lights described its platform as high-throughput functional screening of live cells on OptoSelect chips, on which thousands of individual cells can be isolated, expanded, assayed and exported, for biological research and therapeutics discovery (Berkeley Lights 10-K for 2022). The company was incorporated in Delaware on 5 April 2011 and was based in Emeryville, California (Berkeley Lights 10-K for 2022). After acquiring IsoPlexis on 21 March 2023 it changed its name to PhenomeX (8-K, 21 March 2023). Bruker completed its acquisition of PhenomeX on 2 October 2023, after which the company was renamed Bruker Cellular Analysis (8-K, 2 October 2023).

## Fields

- Kind: Company
- Last checked: 2026-11-05
- Also known as: Berkeley Lights, Inc.; PhenomeX; PhenomeX Inc.; Bruker Cellular Analysis
- Tags: cell-analysis-instruments
- HQ: Emeryville, CA
- Type: devices

## Sources

- Berkeley Lights 10-K for 2022 (SEC EDGAR): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1689657/000168965723000009/bli-20221231.htm
- 8-K, 21 March 2023: IsoPlexis merger and name change to PhenomeX (SEC EDGAR): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1689657/000114036123012827/brhc10050009_8k.htm
- 8-K, 2 October 2023: completion of acquisition by Bruker (SEC EDGAR): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1689657/000119312523248475/d496355d8k.htm

## Connected records

- companies: [Bruker (Bruker Spatial Biology)](https://onco.cc/companies/bruker/)
- people: [Cassian Yee](https://onco.cc/people/cassian-yee/)

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