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What to do with aging equipment: Upgrade or Replace? And a Mini MoFlo XDP Review.
I started writing this post specifically to follow through on a comment I made when talking about our upgrade of our aging MoFlo to the XDP platform (thanks for the reminder Carol). But then, I started thinking about all th (click on title for more...)Submitted: 10 January 2012, 3:23 pm
Is Compensation really necessary?
For some reason, it seems like the idea of compensation gets so much 'publicity'. Everyone is always talking about compensation and how difficult it is. New users of flow cytometry tend to think of this idea as something so complex that they end up stumbling on this one idea before they even get started. &nb (click on title for more...)Submitted: 19 December 2011, 3:54 pm
10 Steps to a Successful Flow Cytometry Experiment
I've been doing a good amount of application development recently and have had to "practice what I've preached." Those of us in the flow cytometry world, especially those in core facilities, like to pontificate all the do's and don'ts of flow cytometry, but how many of us have (recently) struggled through all the& (click on title for more...)Submitted: 12 December 2011, 11:00 pm
The Year of Acquisitions
Like most industries, the Flow Cytometry Industry appears to be shrinking, in that the number of players on the industry side of things is getting smaller. For many years, there were a few big players, namely Becton Dickinson and Beckman Coulter (who they themselves were products of mergers - BD+Ortho, and Beckman (click on title for more...)Submitted: 2 December 2011, 10:31 am
Options for Flow Cytometry Training - FloCyte Review
Flow Cytometry (FCM) isn't the easiest technique to learn. It actually takes quite a while to master both the hardware and software components to sample acquisition and data analysis - let alone the applications utilizing the aforementioned instrumentation. For many users of flow (in an academic setting) the (click on title for more...)Submitted: 21 November 2011, 7:41 pm
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