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Many of you may have noticed that the old online portal to access your data is no longer working and your credentials are just no good anymore. Here is what is happening. BSD mandated that the access to the data be secured and so we switched to a system where every...
Edit 04/23/24 : The Service Contract session was well attended and I'm very grateful to everyone who joined us for the discussion. I want to thanks the panelists Roy Martin, Brooke Ben Massani, and Julie Auger. Their contributions were incredibly insightful! And a...
We recently said good bye to the LSRII 4-12 and I wanted to say a few words about what happened. There are a some things to highlight here, as the retirement of these units is somewhat controversial in the field. BD had announced the end of their support of the...
We recently launched a new YouTube channel to help us service our own equipment. You see, for the longest time, the CAT Facility has avoided purchasing service contracts for our equipment in order to make some very valuable savings. It does mean that the burden on...
We're back from Madison where Everett and myself attended the GLIIFCA 2023 meeting. Mind you, I'm on the Board of Directors of that meeting so I'm a bit biased here. But it's a great meeting! It's only two days so the scientific content is distilled to its purest,...
I had a discussion with our users about our cell sorters and the topic of the AriaII came up. It was removed from our roaster in 2022 and I realized I never explained what happened. Long story short, the AriaII was a victim of computer obsolescence. That sorter was...