Flow cytometry: Difference between revisions

Created page with "Cytometry means the analysis of certain properties of cells, like the number of cells, their size, the presence of certain cell surface proteins on them or inside the cell and so on. This technique is called flow cytometry because it lets cells flow through a very small tube and uses this to analyse their properties. Let’s say we’d like to analyse the size of a bunch of cells in a Petri dish. We put these cells into a flow cytometer, which will direct the cells into..."