Q: How will we obtain service after December 31st, 2021?

A: After December 31st, 2021, BD Accuri™ C6 instruments may obtain service from BD Biosciences depending on parts and personnel availability

Q: How will we obtain service after December 31st, 2021?

A: After December 31st, 2021, BD Accuri™ C6 instruments may obtain service from BD Biosciences depending on parts and personnel availability

Q: How will we obtain service after December 31st, 2021?

A: After December 31st, 2021, BD Accuri™ C6 instruments may obtain service from BD Biosciences depending on parts and personnel availability

BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer

Discontinuation Notice

NOTE: This update does not impact the BD Accuri™ C6 Plus Personal Flow Cytometer

BD has discontinued selling the BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer as of December 31, 2016. Service for BD Accuri™ C6 Systems and their related options will continue until December 31, 2021.

All current service contracts will be honored. Current extended warranties will not be affected and will be supported until they expire.

One-year and multi-year extended warranty renewals were offered until January 1, 2021, provided these contracts end on or before December 31, 2021.

After contracts terminate, BD will support the BD Accuri™ C6 System for as long as reasonably possible, for example, depending on parts availability.

If you have any questions regarding this matter, please see the following Frequently Asked Questions or contact BD Service Contracts Administration at +32-53-720-429  

For information and special offers on the new BD Accuri™ C6 Plus Personal Flow Cytometer, please visit our page.

Kits & Templates

Download the catalog of available kits and templates or select from the following table:

Category	Product Information Sheet	Brand	Kit	Cat. No	C6 Plus Template
Cancer and Cell Biology
	BD Apoptosis Kits and Templates	BD Pharmingen™	Annexin V FITC Apoptosis Detection Kit II	556570	Download
		BD Pharmingen™	Annexin V PE Apoptosis Detection Kit I	559763	Download
		BD^®	MitoScreen (JC-1) Kit	551302	Download
		BD Pharmingen™	Caspase-3 PE Assay Kit	550914	Download
		BD Pharmingen™	Caspase-3 FITC Assay Kit	550480	Download
	BD Apoptosis, DNA Damage and Cell Proliferation Kit and Template	BD Pharmingen™	Apoptosis, DNA Damage and Cell Proliferation Kit	562253	Download
	BD Cell Cycle and DNA Kits and Templates	BD Cycletest™ Plus	DNA Reagent Kit	340242	Download
		BD Pharmingen™	FITC BrdU Flow Kit	559619	Download
		BD Pharmingen™	APC BrdU Flow Kit	552598	Download
Immunology
	BD Naïve/Memory T-Cell Kits and Templates	BD Multitest™	CD45RA/CD45RO/CD3/CD4	340571	Download
		BD Multitest™	CD45RA/CD62L/CD3/CD4	340977	Download
		BD Pharmingen™	Human Naïve/Memory T Cell Panel	561438	Download
	BD Intracellular T-Cell Kits and Templates	BD Pharmingen™	Th1/Th2/Th17 Phenotyping Kit	560751	Download
		BD FastImmune™	IFN-γ/CD69/CD8/CD3 Kit	346048	Download
		BD FastImmune™	IFN-γ/IL-4 Kit	340456	Download
	BD Regulatory T-Cell Kits and Templates	BD Pharmingen™	Human Regulatory T Cell Cocktail	560249	Download
		BD Pharmingen™	Human Th17/Treg Phenotyping Kit	560762	Download
		BD Pharmingen™	FoxP3 Staining Kit	560132	Download
	BD Mouse B-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates	BD Pharmingen™	Mouse B-Lymphocyte Subset Antibody Cocktail	558332	Download
	BD Mouse B-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates	BD Pharmingen™	Mouse B-Lymphocyte Activation Antibody Cocktail	558063	Download
	BD Mouse T-Cell Cytokine and Treg Kits and Templates	BD Pharmingen™	Mouse Th1/Th2/Th17 Phenotyping Kit	560758	Download
	BD Mouse T-Cell Cytokine and Treg Kits and Templates	BD Pharmingen™	Mouse Th17/Treg Phenotyping Kit	560767	Download
	BD Mouse T-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates	BD Pharmingen™	Mouse T-Lymphocyte Subset Antibody Cocktail	558431	Download
	BD Mouse T-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates	BD Pharmingen™	Mouse T-Lymphocyte Activation Antibody Cocktail	557908	Download
Stem Cells
	BD Pluripotent Stem Cell Kits and Templates	BD Stemflow™	Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Sorting and Analysis Kit	560461	Download
		BD Stemflow™	Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Transcription Factor Analysis Kit	560589	Download
		BD Stemflow™	Human and Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cell Analysis Kit	560477	Download
	BD Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Kit and Template	BD Stemflow™	Human iPSC Sorting and Analysis Kit	562626	Download
	BD Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Kit and Template	BD Stemflow™	Human MSC Analysis Kit	562245	Download
Bead-Based Assays
	BD^® Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) Reagents	BD^®	CBA Kits	CBA Kits	Download
	BD^® Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) Reagents	BD^®	CBA Flex Sets	CBA Flex Sets	Download
Microbiology
Microbiology	BD Accuri™ C6 Eawag Water Quality Template	BD Accuri™	Eawag Water Quality Template	-	Download
Instrument Setup
	BD Accuri™ C6 Software User Guide	BD Accuri™	8 and 6 Peak Bead Template	653144 653145	Download
	BD Accuri™ C6 Software User Guide	BD Accuri™	8 and 6 Peak Bead Template 24-Tube Rack	653144 653145	Download

Once you have downloaded a template, select File > Open Workspace or Template and open it. Gate positions, zoom level, thresholds, compensation, run and fluidics settings are all fully adjustable and may require optimization for different sample types. Once the settings are optimized for your experiment, click Run to begin data acquisition.

Note: The linked templates on this page are provided for the convenience of our research customers. Although they have not been validated, they have been used by BD or our customers to generate the sample data in the product information sheets. The templates have been designed using the current BD Accuri™ C6 Software, version 264.21. They are not compatible with version 172.9, 227.4, or 202.8 software. Further optimization may be required before use, and it is the end user's responsibility to ensure that use of the template is appropriate to their research.