How to: life in the FACS lane of flow cytometry

Written by Henry Hui, Sam Small, Pradeep Kumar, Christian Tjam, Catherine Rinaldi

Science can be colorful, fast and fantastic - just ask some aspiring FlowJos. Read on to learn how to go with the flow in this introductory guide on flow cytometry! Flow cytometry (Flow = fluidics, cyto = cell and metry = measure) is a revolutionary technique that was forged at the forefront of the biotechnology explosion in the 1960s. It has since established robust frontiers in the practice, policy and cutting-edge innovation of biology and medicine. The game-changing leaps in cytometry have enabled scientists to decode the architecture of whole biological systems and disease processes on a multidimensional single-cell level. A basic PubMed-indexed search with...

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