Before setting a gating strategy, it is vital to know the properties of cells to be analyzed, such as cell size, the relative expression of markers and whether artifacts are likely to have been ...

Housed inside BD Biosciences’ latest cell sorter, the BD FACSymphony™ S6 Cell Sorter*, is an array of sophisticated optical technologies. There is space for up to 9 different lasers, along with ...

Around the same time, Mack Fulwyler, an engineer working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, needed to separate particles, so he drew on existing techniques to create droplets to separate cells from a ...

Flow cytometry is a technique used for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of cells and particles. It works by analyzing cells as they pass one by one through the flow cytometer’s flow. The ...

Flow cytometry enables researchers to label proteins of interest using fluorophore-conjugated antibodies and other fluorochromes. Much like immunohistochemistry, which produces two- or ...