Symptoms: Anything we put through the FACSAria, came out dead. Not like exploded, obliterated dead, just permeable to trypan blue, not-able-to grow, dead. Secondly, tandems looked weird. For example, PE-Cy7 would have a PE-Cy7 positive population, but then it would...

For those of you who are not aware of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center (UCCRC) on campus, I'll share a bit of good news. First of all, the Cancer Research Center Support Grant has been renewed for 5 years, and secondly, the UCCRC has achieved...

Along the same vein as the previous post, the Education committee presented an outline of their plans to bring flow cytometry education to the general scientific public. In an attempt to standardize the information being presented to users of flow cytometry, the...

Planning to submit a paper to J. Exp. Med. anytime soon? Well then you'll want to pay attention to the new guidelines generated by the Data Presentation Standards Committee and adopted by J. Exp. Med. What the cytometry field has been noticing for quite a while is...

Well, the LSRII was delivered yesterday (3/25/08) and should be installed sometime this week. Once we get everything set up, we'll make it available for use. To differentiate between the 2 LSRIIs, we've decided to call them by their characteristic stripes, Blue and...

Considering this LSRII will have some of the same lasers/filters as our other instruments, you may be thinking the color combinations will probably be the same. Well, you'd be right, but maybe not for the right reasons. Here, I'll explain the best color combos, and...