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Techniques in Cytology – Cytospin: Cytospin Cell Resuspension Solution

August 20, 2013

In this blog series opening article, I discussed how cytospins…

Techniques in Cytology – Cytospin: Distinguishing Benign Cells from Malignant Cells

July 31, 2013

Cytology is a key component in diagnosis and screening of…

Using Mass Spectrometry for Mass T cell Epitope Discovery

July 15, 2013

Time of Flight Mass Cytometry (CyTOF) is a relatively new…

Whole Blood Phospho-flow: Direct Ex Vivo Measurement of Signaling in PBMC

July 10, 2013

I previously discussed phospho-flow cytometry, a method to study intracellular…

Positive Selection vs Negative Selection for Cell Isolation

June 18, 2013

In a previous post, I covered the current options for…

Optimizing Assays to Find Rare Antigen-Specific T cells in Cryopreserved PBMCs

May 31, 2013

Immunomonitoring of T cell based immune responses spans a wide…

Highlight: How TNF knocks out Tregs!

May 30, 2013

A healthy and functional immune system requires a delicate balance…

Considerations for measuring cytokine levels in serum or plasma

May 28, 2013

Changes in circulating cytokine and chemokine levels have been associated…

Using Application Settings to Standardize Flow Cytometry Results Across Experiments and Instruments

May 17, 2013

While many fluorescence-based flow cytometry assays can be run without…