Toaster-sized Diagnostic Tool for HIV/AIDS Austin biotech startup LabNow is planning to produce it. Price not yet announced. Five minute diagnosis. Howard Shapiro showed an inexpensive "appropriate technology" solution at the recent Asilomar Cytometry Development Conference. Production pricing will be the interesting news.

MIT Fires Biology Professor - Data Falsified? Every scientist's least favorite scenario plays out in this The Tech article from MIT's oldest and largest student newspaper.

Reengineered T cells Throttle Brain Tumors! Weakened T cells get a boost from flow-cytometry-driven YEAST DISPLAY and return to the (mouse) body to combat cancer.

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!)