Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
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Blog Post
...how to read a flow plot.
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Flow cytometry is a method that allows users to analyze single cells...in flow cytometers, and output is generated through measurement of events. An event is something that passes...data in the literature. Data reported from flow cytometry experiments can be a little challenging to understand... read by the machine’s sensors. (Usually this something is a cell, but it could be debris or unbound antibodies...Created with biorender.com.
The goal of flow cytometry is to use increasingly more stringent markers ...in the same order. However, in an actual flow cytometry run, all markers are read in parallel.
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Pro tip! The forward scatter is a proxy for diameter and volume of the cell, thus allowing the exclusion...