BioForm Solutions brings rigorous analytical science and direct scientific support to the hard product-development questions across the probiotics, postbiotics, functional foods, and supplements industries.
Our founder and CEO started BioForm Solutions to bring flow cytometry to the probiotics industry — and BioForm was the first to bring it to market. That changed how product quality is defined: manufacturers gained a direct, dependable measure of the cells in their products, so they can stand behind their label claims with confidence — which translates into more effective products and greater customer trust. We haven't stood still since; we continually develop new proprietary assays and refine our methods to keep pace with increasingly complex products.
BioForm introduced flow cytometry to probiotic testing over a decade ago — measuring live, injured, and dead cells directly instead of inferring viability from colonies on a plate. AFU measurement is quickly becoming the gold standard for probiotic quality.
Understand your product’s true cell health.
As products grew more complex, we brought Digital PCR (dPCR) into our workflow and optimized its protocols for probiotics, adding absolute, strain-level quantification — answering the identity and composition questions viability testing alone cannot.
See the total and live counts of each strain.
BioForm is an active member of the International Probiotics Association (IPA), where our founder serves on the board and contributes to several working groups. We also partner with manufacturers on research shared with the field through papers and posters.
Assays designed for real product challenges.
ISO/IEC accredited for 17025 and 19344(B) — reproducible, audit-ready data you can defend.
Confidence in your results.
Same-day result options and pre-validated methods, so you can release, decide, and move faster.
Keep your projects moving.
Every project includes a complimentary consultation with the scientist leading your project — direct access, not a ticket queue.
Support from planning to interpretation.
ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited by PJLA for flow cytometry testing. Every result is traceable, reproducible, and ready to stand up to an audit.
The BioForm Solutions team has proved to be an invaluable partner in our mission to bring the highest-quality probiotic supplements to market.
Using flow to validate our ingredient supply chain has drastically reduced the need for over-fill — significantly reducing our manufacturing costs.
Outsourcing our stability studies to BioForm has allowed us to pull forward projects we didn't think we could get to this year.
We needed to know which strains were present in our ingredients. BioForm is the only company I could find with expertise in Droplet Digital PCR — absolute game changer.
BioForm Solutions was built on a belief: difficult scientific questions deserve thoughtful analytical approaches, and every project begins with understanding your question before selecting the method that can answer it.
Senior scientists lead every project. The people who design the method are the people who run it and interpret the result.
We match the method to your question. When a standard panel cannot answer it, we develop one that can.
Clear methods, clear assumptions, clear limitations. You always know what we did and why we did it.
At BioForm Solutions we don't simply deliver data. Our team works with customers to understand what the results mean and how they should influence future decisions.
— Dana Buckman, Founder & CEO
You are not buying testing capacity — you are buying expertise, judgment, and direct access to the scientists doing the work.
Dana Buckman has built a distinguished career by applying more than 30 years of expertise in flow cytometry from cancer and autoimmune research to the probiotic and microbiome industries.
As Founder and CEO of BioForm Solutions, she has helped bridge the gap between clinical research and practical microbial applications while advancing the use of flow cytometry as an alternative to traditional probiotic testing methods.
She holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado and previously served as a senior scientist with CancerVax, Arena Pharmaceuticals, and Pfizer before founding BioForm Solutions.
Our scientific team spans Senior Scientist, Research Associate, and QC/QA and Laboratory Management roles, with extensive experience in regulated research and testing facilities.
Every BioForm project is led by a Senior Scientist — and every engagement includes direct consultation before samples are submitted, to confirm the method fits your goal, and again after results are delivered, so the data turns into a decision.
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