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PC issues can be a real showstopper in a flow core, and a humbling one at that. Even for those who spend much of their workweek maintaining and repairing complicated – and expensive! – flow cytometers, fixing an unresponsive keyboard or Blue Screen of Death can be...
Bert Ladd | Mar 3, 2021 | 0 Comments
The Cytek Aurora is not the most polite instrument I know. If you fail a Quality Control test (QC) when you first turn on the instrument, it will spit out a giant FAILED error message in big red letters. For the untrained users, it can be a bit much. I can tell you...
David Leclerc | Oct 8, 2020 | 4 Comments
When the global pandemic hit and Chicago’s shelter in place orders prevented me from going into the lab, I started doing some experiments in my kitchen instead. I decided to take on baking sourdough bread (like many other quarantined individuals). And while I...
Laura Johnston | Sep 30, 2020 | 26 Comments
When calculating compensation, automated tools are the gold standard. However, people often struggle to get good results from the automated compensation tools and will turn to manual compensation to fix any errors. Why is it difficult to get accurate results...
Laura Johnston | Jun 24, 2020 | 19 Comments
Arya Stark from Game of Thrones recites a list of the names of the people she plans to murder at some point or another. I, for one, think that behavior to be odd, somewhat rude and unhealthy. In my mind, I recite a list of the features I'm looking for on cell...
David Leclerc | Nov 20, 2019 | 0 Comments
The voltages on a flow cytometer are one of the more challenging settings to adjust properly. If voltages are too high or too low, the data looks terrible and is potentially unusable. Once voltages have been set and data have been collected there is no way to go...
Laura Johnston | Oct 18, 2019 | 8 Comments
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