Ah, the MoFlo - what a fine piece of craftsmanship!  I started my relationship with the MoFlo (Formerly of Cytomation, Formerly of DakoCytomation, Formerly of Dako, Currently of Beckman-Coulter) in the year 2000.  We had many great years together, but our...

So, I was fixing a clogged DCM pump on the LSRII this morning, which requires the removal of the side panel on the instrument, getting on your hands and knees and digging around in the inner bowels of the beast.  As I was shimmying around, contorting my limbs in...

Well, the HyperCyt has come and gone and to sum up my thoughts in a word I can only say, Wow.  When it comes to speed, this thing is really fast.  I tried to put a bunch of different things through the sampler to try and get it to fail, but it just didn't; big...

Get this; a company (spun-off from Fujitsu) has successfully made a green emitting laser using Quantum Dots. The company, called QD Laser, Inc. (how original) created a quantum dot semiconductor crystal that emits at 1064nm. A quick frequency doubling yields the...

TVs, PSPs, PMPs, Laptops, and now Flow Cytometers? This seems like something out of left field, but Sony recently acquired University of Illinois start-up company iCyt. For those of you not familiar with iCyt, they are developers of the 4-headed sorting monster,...

One of the first questions people ask me about the ISX is how does the fluorescence intensity compare to a standard flow cytometer (FCM). In a quick attempt to partially answer that question, I ran some BD Calibrite beads on our LSRII-Orange and our ISX, and have...