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J. Paul Robinson Gives WikiPedia an "A" OK, the main Flow Cytometry entry got an A, but Dr. Robinson felt compelled to make a few corrections elsewhere...

Got Milk... Powder? Monitor the quality of your milk powder production FAST... through the miracle of Flow Cytometry.

Defective sperm function is the largest defined cause of human infertility. The presence of excess unsaturated fatty acids in defective human spermatozoa may precipitate the oxidative stress encountered in male infertility.

Your Mother Was Right. Get a Good Night's Sleep Or as Dr. Tanja Lange would say, " Improving sleep could represent a therapeutic option to enhance the success of vaccinations and success in the treatment of diseases that are characterized by type 2 cytokine overactivity."

Bottom hula twist with rotation of both bonds The reversible photoswitching of fluorescent markers should provide nanoscale resolution in fluorescence microscopy by using lenses and regular illumination, hardly conceivable only a few years ago, and it's got a beat you can dance to!

TracePro Expert illumination design software TracePro is a software tool for modeling and analyzing the propagation of light in opto-mechanical systems. With the capability to simulate fluorescence, TracePro models the design of fluorescence based optical systems across the breadth of life science applications including biosensing, in-vitro and in-vivo medical diagnostics, spectroscopy, microarrays, flow cytometry and microscopy.

Wild Flavors' Flowcam Wild Flavors is one of the largest privately owned suppliers of natural flavour ingredients for the food and beverage industry. A Meritics Flowcam BX-4 model was purchased for use at Wild Flavors's US headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. "The Flowcam provides the same types of information as classical microscopy, but in much higher quantities than we were able to look at before."

Picking pink or blue Choosing the gender of your baby. One technique is to sort out the X- and Y-bearing sperm by flow cytometry. What should public policy be?

Simple, 'Last-Generation' Technology to Assist African AIDS Victims The new devices essentially would be simplified flow cytometers. "We believe that we can build a device that will reduce the cost for CD4 tests to 50 or 25 cents." Down from about $12.

Eleutherococcus Senticosus - Boost your Resistance with Russian Ginseng? Sounds like SPAM but one cytometric study reports big upswings in Total T-cell numbers, T helper/inducer cells, cytotoxic Ts, B Iymphocytes and NK cells compared to the control group. There's no excuse for the design of those pages though.

Wireless Spectrometer, Bobbing in the Ocean, Reading Plankton Biomass They dress the dolphins running this experiment  in little white coats.

Interesting Glossary Page, but it contains definitions for neither Speciman or Sample: [1]

11-color, 13-parameter flow cytometry  Pushing the envelope... These scientists use every color in the catalog to distinguish naive T-cells from memory T-cells. Telling these cells apart gives a better handle on HIV-AIDS prognosis. Eleven stains in one pass. See how it's done. -- Mario is now up to 17 color experiments.

Flow cytometry test flawed, doesn't account for false positives due to a "vanishing twin" or "chimerism!" Professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton will have to try harder than this to weasel out of a doping scandal. Paul Robinson quoted by the Denver Post on the matter: [2]  

CD4 Cell Counts Via Microchip Aidsmap , an online aids education and information site has this articleabout appropriate technology in the third world. Reliable cell counts with small cell sample size and minimal reagent.

Four-color Flow Cytometric Analysis Pictures in this Scientist article Immunity is the Best Biomarker , clearly illustrate the strategy of a multiple reagant experiment.

AgilentBioanalyzer "Lab-on-a-chip" Automated alternative to gel electrophoresis. "RNA isolation, gene expression analysis, gene silencing, protein purification analysis, protein quality control as well as integrated cell based parameter acquisition..." See it. 

National Flow Cytometry Resource

Annual Course in Flow Cytometry - Los Alamos

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories

2005 Mail List, Thread Sort

Roswell Park Cancer Institute Laboratory of Flow Cytometry

Catalog of Cytometry Freeware

Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories:

• Main page
• Join the cytometry mailing list or search the archive of questions and answers.
  

Compensation:

• Dr. Mario Roederer discusses compensation.
  

Conjugation of Monoclonal Antibodies:

• A comprehensive source of conjugation protocols.
  

Flow Cytometry Sites:

• Salk Institute Flow Cytometry - the premier flow site, gives you information ranging from emission spectra of most fluorochromes, to phone numbers of where to get your lasers fixed.
• International Society for Analytical Cytology - ISAC is the governing organization in the field. Look here for the schedules of Congresses and information on standards.

General Science sites:

• BI-Deaconess Biometrics Center - a good source of summaries of statistics & designing clinical trials

For a good laugh:

• The Annals of Improbable Research (host of the Ig Noble Prizes - awards for achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced!)