News

December 4, 2025

News Release

Yamaha Motor Launches Strategic Partnership with Nikon Instruments , USA - Creating Synergies Between Both Companies in Advanced Technologies and Support Services for Drug Discovery -

August 7, 2025

News Release

Yamaha Motor Begins Joint Research Using Cell Handling Technology with a national research institute - Advancing Next-Generation Automated Experimentation to Promote DX and AX in Research -

August 7, 2025

Conference Presentations

A study using CELL HANDLER™ was presented at SLAS2025 International Conference & Exhibition:

Miniaturizing patient-derived organoid screening assays for predictive drug testing

June 16, 2025

Publication

Gou Takahashi, Minato Maeda, Kayoko Shinozaki, Yuichiro Miyaoka , et al. “High-throughput robotic isolation of human iPS cell clones reveals frequent homozygous induction of identical genetic manipulations by CRISPR-Cas9”Stem Cell Research & Therapy volume 16, 2025

June 16, 2025

News Release

Yamaha Motor Makes First International Delivery of the CELL HANDLER™ 2 to U.S. Research Institute— Set for use in cutting-edge cancer research at Fred Hutch Cancer Center —

June 16, 2025

Article in Nature

An article about the CELL HANDLER™ was published in Nature. HiLung and Hub Organoids talk about how the CELL HANDLER™ helps their research.

• Expanding the reach of organoid research

November 14, 2024

Conference Presentations

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. will introduce the CELL HANDLER™2 in March 2025!

October 7, 2024

Conference Presentations

A study using CELL HANDLER was presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society for Genome Editing.

• Profiling Genome Editing Outcomes in Individual Human iPS Cells and Cultured Cells

March 7, 2024

New applications released

• Development of a process to sort high antibody-producing cells using the CELL HANDLER™

August 2, 2023

Publication
Fujimura T, Enomoto Y, Katsura H, et al.
“Identifying a Lung Stem Cell Subpopulation by Combining Single-Cell Morphometrics, Organoid Culture, and Transcriptomics” Stem Cells,2023 July

October 22, 2021

New applications released

• Automated placement of varied sized spheroids in Organ on a Chip, Mimetas OrganoPlate^® Graft by CELL HANDLER™

June 21, 2021

Publication
Higa A, Takahashi N, Hiyama G, et al.
“High-Throughput In Vitro Assay using Patient-Derived Tumor Organoids” J. Vis. Exp. 2021 Jun;(172)

October 22, 2021

New applications released

• Automated iPS cell sorting by using CELL HANDLER™ (CiRA Foundation)

June 21, 2021

New applications released

• Advanced approach for 3D-cell phenotypic assay

April 9, 2021

Publication
Takahashi N, Higa A, Hiyama G, et al.
“Construction of in vitro patient‑derived tumor models to evaluate anticancer agents and cancer immunotherapy” Oncol Lett. 2021 May;21(5):406

May 23, 2019

Kondo J, Ekawa T, Endo H, et al.
High-throughput screening in colorectal cancer tissue-originated spheroids. Cancer Sci. 2019;110:345‐355. PubMed

July 25, 2018

YAMAHA CELL HANDLER™ earned the New Product Awardat the 2018 SLAS* Europe Conference and Exhibition.
*Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening