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It's no secret technology continues to poke its nosy body into every part of our lives. But it's also surprising that we who work in the labs don't utilize it to its fullest potential. For example, up until recently, I would time my incubations by writing down on...
I can never tell if and when things like this become "official." It's not like administrators are going to put out a letter to the University announcing such things, so I thought I'd mark the occasion with a post about it. What is "it" you say? For years the...
I started writing this post specifically to follow through on a comment I made when talking about our upgrade of our aging MoFlo to the XDP platform (thanks for the reminder Carol). But then, I started thinking about all the equipment we've held onto and decided...
For some reason, it seems like the idea of compensation gets so much 'publicity'. Everyone is always talking about compensation and how difficult it is. New users of flow cytometry tend to think of this idea as something so complex that they end up stumbling on...
I've been doing a good amount of application development recently and have had to "practice what I've preached." Those of us in the flow cytometry world, especially those in core facilities, like to pontificate all the do's and don'ts of flow cytometry, but how...
Like most industries, the Flow Cytometry Industry appears to be shrinking, in that the number of players on the industry side of things is getting smaller. For many years, there were a few big players, namely Becton Dickinson and Beckman Coulter (who they...