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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...
The latest ChUG podcast is out where we discuss a number of topics. But I wanted to revisit the unmixing with beads issue that we discussed in a previous post. So it turns out beads create unmixing matrix that do not correct spectral artifacts completely. I'm...
Earlier today, Mike blasted an email about how the CAT Facility is ditching bleach for the cleanup of its instruments. We're now going to use something we call CaviCon! Sounds like something that wants to punch Optimus Prime in the face (I learned English watching...
Greetings from our absolutely delightful and unseasonably warm day for February – I hope you are getting, or did get, a chance to be outside. Our temperature is going to drop 40 ° F by tomorrow….Such is weather in the Midwest. This post will cover a recent paper in...
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...
Should I use cells or beads? This question is at the center of many discussions nowadays in the flow cytometry world. Beads were once lauded as the easy alternative to cells to prepare your compensation controls. But as more and more researchers look at their...