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I didn't talk about it much, but amongst the instruments we lost in 2021 were our two ELISA plate readers. We honestly don't run that many of these, so I'm quite unclear on why we had two to begin with. At any rate, both broke down within the same month, just as we...
I've been looking for sterility-designed cell sorter for a while and have organized a Tyto demo for our users in 2018 and 2019. I'd like to share what I've learned so far. Let me get some stuff out of the way before we start: 1 – I’m not thinking of the Tyto as a...
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...
The CAT Facility will host two instrument demonstrations in the next few months. Details can be found on the Events page. Miltenyi MACSQuant Tyto cell sorter (October 21st to 25th) 1 - The Miltenyi MACSQuant Tyto is designed for high efficiency cell sorting in true...
Why enter the crowded flow cytometer market with a 3-laser, 13-color analyzer? Why not? Acea Biosciences (San Diego, CA) is yet another upstart cytometry company with aspirations of creating an easy-to-use, affordable workhorse analyzer targeted at the meat of all...
It wasn't so long ago that I blogged my impressions of the newly released Attune Cytometer from Life Technologies. Although overall, the system seemed pretty good, I did find some disheartening issues with both the hardware and software. There's no reason why...