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The CAT Facility got flooded over the weekend and we want to provide as much up-to-date information about the situation and what we're doing about it. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns. Check back again here for the most recent updates....
David Leclerc | Jun 21, 2021 | 0 Comments
I've been thinking about brightness in flow cytometry lately. It's a simple enough concept, but it's one of these things where you start thinking about it and you may quickly get lost in the numerous moving parts. One could argue that what people really care about...
David Leclerc | May 27, 2021 | 0 Comments
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
Two weeks ago I covered my red flags for identifying bad panel design (read that here if you missed it!). This week I’ll go over my red flags for experiment design, which mostly means controls. Controls are needed to be able to appropriately interpret experiment...
Laura Johnston | Dec 3, 2020 | 4 Comments
In the first post of the "bad data" series, I mostly discussed how to identify problems with cytometer settings and compensation by looking at the data plots. (Read that post here in case you missed it!) In this post I’d like to expand on that by going over common...
Laura Johnston | Nov 19, 2020 | 2 Comments
The manner in which manuscripts acknowledge the work done in Shared Resource Laboratories (SRLs) is inconsistent and an ongoing topic of discussion. These acknowledgements are critical to the survival of SRLs as they are used to satisfy the requirements of federal...
David Leclerc | Nov 9, 2020 | 0 Comments
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