Learn the latest news about the CAT Facility and tips for learning flow cytometry. Feel free to share your opinion in the comments section of each post. The comment section will be moderated for tone and content.
Flow Cytometry (FCM) isn't the easiest technique to learn. It actually takes quite a while to master both the hardware and software components to sample acquisition and data analysis - let alone the applications utilizing the aforementioned instrumentation. For...
Instrument maintenance and repair is typically not a huge factor when deciding on a piece of equipment to purchase. People are much more concerned with the practical things like how many lasers can I put on, how fast can I run my samples, or more simply, can it...
Recently, we've had a pretty good bump in the usage of our ImageStream X (Amnis, now a part of EMD-Millipore), but many of the new users are using the technology to confirm things they're seeing on the conventional flow cytometers. So, needless to say, I've been...
I recently had the chance to play around with the Scepter 2.0 Automatic Cell Counter from EMD-Millipore. The Scepter uses the Coulter Volume principle to count cells in a microfluidic chamber connected to a handheld device. I'm basically using it for things like...
If you're unfamiliar with the Great Lakes International Imaging and Flow Cytometry Association (GLIIFCA) meeting, you can check out this year's program online here. It's sort of a morph between a technology focused user group meeting and a smaller scale scientific...
I'll begin by saying, I definitely need to pay closer attention to the various safety concerns in a lab. All too often we sacrifice our own safety in order to get things done quicker; cutting corners, thinking I'll be careful. And then, bam, you have an incident...